Word: threatenings
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...finds the Navy pretty rugged. When she quits, or we should say is returned to inactive duty, we're afraid she'll bring along a lot of that naval doubletalk. We really don't want any. An expert in naval jargon advises us that we should threaten, if she does, to take her down to the Potomac and give her the Deep...
...Secretariat, or permanent research and managerial staff, is to be headed by a Secretary-General with the right to "bring to the attention of the Security Council any matters which in his opinion may threaten international peace and security." This provision would give the organization's executive an importance far beyond that of his counterpart in the League...
...Russia must rely on Germany for virtually all her reconstruction imports, German industries will work full blast for Russian reparations. Whether or not this means prosperity for the German people, it will mean the speedy restoration of Germany's industrial potential, a new opportunity for the Germans to threaten world peace. If, to prevent the Germans from seizing this opportunity, the U.S.S.R. is tempted to take full political control of Germany, then Britain and the U.S. may well be alienated from their ally-another opportunity for the Germans...
With no such political club wherewith to threaten the President, the non-Communist unions declined in prestige and power. The Communist unions expanded until now they control 400,000 tightly organized workers...
...story: a lonely young Londoner (Ray Milland), at an apparently fatuous parish bazaar, by mischance speaks a password which puts him in possession of a cake. When various people threaten his life and risk theirs in their effort to get the cake away from him, he begins to realize that he somehow has the key to an elaborate and very sinister Nazi spy-plot. When the detective he hires to help him is murdered, he is in no position to call the matter to the attention of the police, because he has only recently been acquitted of the mercy-killing...