Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western liberalism, but in fact his regime has been politically retrogressive. Only last June, 5,000,000 Egyptians certified his dictatorship by casting a 99.9% majority in "free" elections. Years ago he wrote a friend: "I really believe that imperialism is playing a one-card game in order to threaten only. If ever it knew that there were Egyptians ready to shed their blood and to meet force by force, it would have given way like a harlot." Nasser is a counterpuncher who has won a number of prelims by meeting blow with counterblow. All things considered, he has come...
Stirred from their lethargy, thousands of Spaniards wrote letters to the editor. Madrid's vociferous Castizos (true Castilians) almost to a man opposed reform, arguing that to impose "foreign innovations" was to overlook "the realities of Spain" and to threaten one of the most cherished of Spanish institutions, the so-bremesa−"chatting without attaching any importance to the passing of time" at the table after lunch...
...Japanese are aware that any hasty expansion of trade with Red China would threaten economic relations with the U.S.; China last year spent only $28.5 million for Japanese goods, while the U.S. imported $450 million worth. Japan's answer, argues wily Ishibashi, is to win "alleviation or removal" of the free world's restrictions on strategic trade with Red China so that Japan can close its trade gap by selling the Communists ships, railroad equipment, generators, steel products, cranes and bulldozers...
...weeks of campaigning, tensions heightened. Nkrumah's opposition stumped upcountry Ashanti and the Northern Territories. The Territories, on the edge of the Sahara, are mostly Moslem; the center region of Ashanti is run by tribal chieftains who recognize that the city slickers down in the capital of Accra threaten ancient tribal ways. The new N.L.M. party talked up a federal system with decentralized powers. The Gold Coast is only about as big as Nebraska, however, with only 4,500,000 people, and Nkrumah argued that "regionalism must not replace nationalism...
...more forceful action by NATO could rebound unfavorably for the West. Certainly, the United States should not threaten or criticize Iceland prematurely. If, after the June election, leftist elements grow in strength, that will be the time to tighten the screws. Until then, an increase in cultural understanding and economic assistance in solving Iceland's internal problems are the best ways to prevent a still remote danger from becoming a reality...