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Word: threatens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donovan we will score or who will run Schmit the ball, Eder, but I wouldn't take their best man for a Fyler on my team." Husy was heard to threaten "I Mallett my men put Geeson their pants" with a Deery look, the Sage of the Age climbed up the Lauterback into the barn but before he Trumbulled into the hay he murmured. Harvard 13 Worcester...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey (pw), | Title: Hu Flung Huey Flings 'Em | 10/8/1943 | See Source »

...Russians are prepared to take full advantage of the Wehrmacht's difficulties: >From Smolensk, they now threaten the fat German bulge stretching out to Leningrad. If Vitebsk falls, the Baltic states would soon be in Russian hands. >From half a dozen points on the Dnieper, they can outflank most of the German strongholds on the Dnieper line. > From Melitopol and the Caucasus they will threaten the Crimea. > From the Crimea, if & when it falls, they will again dominate the Black Sea, and once again Germany's vassal states of Rumania and Bulgaria will be open to a direct...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: Toward the Last Battle | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

Between Mountbatten and Nimitz, on what has been the No.1 front since the Pacific war began, General Douglas MacArthur would finish pinching off Rabaul, advance along New Guinea to a position which could threaten the East Indies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: GLOBAL COMBAT | 10/4/1943 | See Source »

...Germans of all the time that they now hope to gain by resistance in northern Italy and Yugoslavia. For, with a free entry through Turkey, the Allies could establish a front in Bulgaria, attack the Rumanian hinge of the inner fortress, deprive the Germans of Ploesti's oil, threaten their armies in southern Russia from the rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Lose the War | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Dodd's hardest job used to be getting directors to take his advice. Once a director wanted the wedding guests to cap the ceremony by singing I Ain't Gonna Sin No More. Dodd had to threaten to walk off the lot if the director persisted. But those were the early days. Now directors more readily bow to Dodd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Chaplain to the Movies | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

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