Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other means, modern civilization requires a man to have an understanding of some of the greater problems of the sciences that may bring his destruction, and a satisfactory means of providing it in Harvard College must be found. The lower-level offering is now adequate, but impending retirements may threaten it soon. The upper-level courses are insufficient...
...gotten out of step with his hair-curling-depression remarks, could hardly have been more pointed. Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks, an economic conservative by birth, instinct and training, stepped to the firing line with a denunciation of "budget butchers, whose latest proposals go far beyond sound economy and now threaten progress and peace." In the face of the united Administration front, congressional budget-cutting mail was slacking off, and letters supporting the President were beginning to pile...
...Presidential Candidate Louis Déjoie, a rich mulatto businessman, promptly charged that Fignole's candidacy would be "illegal and undemocratic." Fignole's answer was an oblique warning. Said he to his followers: "I ask you people to remain calm- but also to watch everything that may threaten the government. I ask you to respect lives and property-but also to keep your eyes open...
...cardinal knows that Poland's antiStalinist, National Communist regime represents the utmost limit to which Moscow will let Poland go in the direction of freedom. If Poland's passionately anti-Communist people, hoping for a truly democratic government, were to overthrow or even threaten the Gomulka regime, the result would be as sure as shooting was in Hungary last year: the Russians would move in. To prevent this, Wyszynski has wholeheartedly supported Gomulka, has again and again kept the Poles from rioting against the government. Poles of all political shadings, including Communists, agree that it was Wyszynski...
...burden of proof would be on the Government. The defendant would have the usual rights to cross-examine, present witnesses and appeal. If the injunction were issued and the white man ignored it by, say, continuing to threaten the Negro, he could be held in civil contempt. At his contempt hearing he would not have the right to a jury trial-a key point in the program. If found guilty, he could be jailed until he purged himself of the contempt by agreeing to obey the injunction...