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Word: threatens (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...immediately. The success of these reforms proved a strong bulwark against communism in rural areas and clearly demonstrated that honest and intelligent administration is possible in Korea. Now that the farm administration has been placed in the hands of Syngman Rhee's U.S.-approved government, however, corruption and waste threaten to obliterate the gains made by the occupation authorities...

Author: By Herbert P. Glesson, | Title: Failure in Korea | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

...control will come the chain of laboratories which the AEC is building throughout the country. Much of his work will be top-secret, concerned with atom bombs and other nuclear weapons. An even greater responsibility of Pitzer's will be to make the atom serve-as well as threaten-civilization...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Atomic Boss | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...group of Lowell House students and tutors have formed a breakfast discussion group to study the owl problem. They seek the preservation of the Yard bird, and threaten to "choke anyone who harms...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Petition Asks Owl Sanction; Murder Plot Falls Through | 12/11/1948 | See Source »

...famous playwright and actress (Oscar Homolka & Lili Darvas) on their uppers-they are bitter and sweet, grumbling and gallant, some taking misfortune in their stride, some wearing Budapest on their sleeve. In time most of them find their mate or their metier; while those whom the immigration authorities threaten with tragedy are saved by a phone call to Bernard Baruch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 22, 1948 | 11/22/1948 | See Source »

...leap tall buildings at a single bound," or perform any of Superman's other specialties. His scope of activities is thereby diminished, along with the quality of his antagonists. The villains may still be mad geniuses, but they don't pitch planets around. Some of them do threaten mankind, although on a lesser scale, of course...

Author: By David E. Lillenthal jr., | Title: The Children's Hour: II | 11/18/1948 | See Source »

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