Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...missile future. "It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against the consequences of an attack with nuclear weapons," said the White Paper flatly. "The only existing safeguard against major aggression is the power to threaten retaliation with nuclear weapons...
Answer in Kind. Now, with the prospect of NATO missile bases in Britain and West Germany-and perhaps in Turkey, Italy and Norway as well-the Soviets could no longer threaten clear and present danger to Western Europe with short-range nuclear missiles without fear of retaliation in kind. Neither the U.S. nor Russia will be equipped with a long-range nuclear missile force-in-being for some years, and both sides know it. But the imminent arrival of U.S. nuclear missiles at British and other NATO bases represents a turn of the screw that tightens still further the ring...
...some of his sentences in self-conscious Sunday-best. Images that arrest also often manacle the narrative. But in his bewildered hero bent on restoring a lost Eden, Author Jones has found an apt symbol for the current Southern temper, restive and occasionally violent under edicts which seem to threaten cherished folkways. In a fictional amber as reflective as it is rhetorical, he has fixed the unchanging pathos of social change...
Princeton is currently in second place in the League race, with a 6-1 record, following a win over Brown last night. The Tigers handily defeated Harvard twice last year, and are counting on a repeat if they are to seriously threaten for League laurels...
Passports Revoked. At week's end the State Department revoked the passports of Worthy, Stevens and Harrington; they will be valid only for their return to the U.S. The Treasury Department also threatened to block the correspondents' bank accounts for violating the 1950 law forbidding financial dealings with Communist China. The Government did not, however, say that it would take action against the Afro-American or Look, or permanently cancel the newsmen's passports. Nor did it threaten to impose the maximum penalty for violating passport restrictions: $2,000 fine and five years in prison...