Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authority"-suits them well. George VI cannot dismiss, disparage or even threaten his ministers. As was shown in the case of his brother, Edward VIII, they can evict him. But no minister of-the King, nor any truly British socialist, would ever dare to raise hand or voice against the Monarchy. The institution is the thing...
...Park Avenue rival of psychoanalysis. For fees from $1,000 up, he has greatly helped a golf professional who was off his game, brooding artists, jittery businessmen, neurotic housewives, drunks, insomniacs, kleptomaniacs - usually in not more than six sessions. Some enthusiasts think that Salter's methods actually threaten psychoanalysts...
...These men who strike or threaten to strike are Americans like all of the rest of us. [They] are not essentially different from heroes in the South Pacific and on the Italian peninsula. They can be more accurately defined as the victims of the failure of the nation to develop a sense of responsibility in this gravest of all wars...
Yale and Harvard talked last week about their plans for postwar education. On one point they were agreed: government financial aid must not threaten academic control. Then they parted...
Jimmy Byrnes was desperate. In a radio fight talk he cajoled, warned, reproved, threatened and begged the U.S. to hold the line against inflation. Finally, in peroration, the Assistant President got off the year's most inept quotation. Picturing labor groups which threaten to strike if they don't get more pay as holding a political pistol to the nation's head, he cried: "The Government must say to any such group: 'Lay that pistol down...