Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Part of Germany's preparation for the invasion of Great Britain was to threaten repeatedly that all British civilians who might attempt to injure German soldiers would be regarded as francs-tireurs (guerrilla fighters) and treated accordingly (put to death). Last week the British Government broadcast, in German, its considered reply to Germany's threat. It said...
...with their naval bases at Alexandria and on the island of Cyprus, they commanded the eastern Mediterranean, keeping open their short trade route to the Orient. This time that route is cut farther west, by Italy in midMediterranean, and the British Fleet protecting the Canal found another function: to threaten Italy in the Mediterranean, raid her supply lines and cut off completely the Italian forces in East Africa (which now includes what once was Ethiopia...