Word: threatenings
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...thought all through the last war I was a pacifist," the white-haired philosopher stated at the Faculty Club. "Now I am not. Forces which threaten mankind are assailing England today...
Concerning the hungry solicitors who lurk outside Mem Hall, Hooper's report says, "The solicitors tend to wax enthusiastic . . They should be firmly dealt with . . . It will generally be found necessary to threaten them with expulsion from time to time in order to restrain their clamor...
Taking careful aim and with obvious satisfaction, Beverly Vincent planted a good hard right, smack! It staggered, and silenced, Martin Sweeney. Though Congressmen not infrequently threaten one another and have been known to throw bound copies of the Record* when vexed, ancient Doorkeeper Joseph Sinnot said it was the best blow he had heard in his 50 years in the House...
...staff to Britain following the French surrender. General de Larminat moved into French territory from his refuge in the Belgian Congo after his agents had arrested the Military Governor at Brazzaville. Appointed by General de Gaulle Commander of the French Equatorial African Land, Sea and Air Forces, he can threaten Italian Libya across her undefended southern frontier, perhaps block Axis plans for a backdoor entrance into central Africa...
...only use Italy has for such a land is to threaten Britain's hold on the southern entrance to the Red Sea and the route to the Orient, a hold otherwise confined to the port of Aden across the Gulf and the island of Perim in the strait called Bab el Mandeb ("gate to the mandate"). To defend Somaliland, Britain had the Camel Corps, originally formed by British Marine officers to hunt Mohammed bin Abdullah, the "Mad Mullah" who for 20 years (1900-20) carried on a religious revolt until R. A. F. bombing planes drove him into Ethiopia...