Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unskilled steel workers. Sympathetic labor historians believe that the campaign was lost less because of the savage resistance of steel-masters and their police and military allies than because A. F. of L. craft unions backed out in alarm when they saw the steel working masses moving in to threaten their privileged caste system...
...narcotic addict, while most of the pleasure-seekers and boredom-avoiders go to pieces in unesthetic ways. Anthony turns into a preacher of positive pacifism, accepts William Penn's credo: "Force may subdue, but Love gains." His lectures on peace arouse the hatred of patriots, who threaten him. Always timid, he finds that faith has made him courageous. "Meanwhile there are love and compassion. Constantly obstructed. But, oh, let them be made indefatigable, implacable to surmount all obstacles, the inner sloth, the distaste, the intellectual scorn; and, from without, the other's aversions and suspicions...
...Jews a life-&-death struggle is raging, which will not cease before one of the parties has been completely crushed. . . . There is no 'antiSemitism' in Palestine. We ourselves belong to the Semitic race. We turn against the Jews not because they are Jews but because they threaten our existence. Our resistance would be just as strong if the invaders were French, German or Scandinavian...
...wards," observed Secretary Claribel Wheeler of the N. L, of N. E. ". . . On the other hand, small hospitals in scattered regions require such long hours for such low salary, that competent women are reluctant to take up staff positions there. Unless we can solve this problem, the small hospitals threaten to hire practical nurses...
...with what they call the grippe and a hot water bottle- not a bad combination. . . . More or less in bed owing to my hind legs, which are in a chronic state of being asleep up to the knees and threaten to leave me in the lurch. ... I am growing very tottery and had considerable difficulty in dressing this a. m. Even so, I shirk my job and ignominiously retire to blankets and a cheap novel at our forlorn and smelly billet...