Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although present Administration policy envisions a greater and greater dependence on weapons of mass-destruction and a smaller and smaller Army. Appealing as this may be to high-ranking Air Force officers and prospective draftees, it means inevitably a diminishing ability to handle the possible "brush-fire" wars that threaten sporadically in the Near and Far East. In other words, comes an act of aggression, we will then have to choose between using the atomic bomb (and very likely starting World War III) or backing out. This is high-stake gambling, which depends on the presumption that potential enemies...
Whenever they start worrying about the strong Iron Curtain track teams that threaten to run off with the next Olympics, some Western trackmen suddenly remember that foot racing is, after all, a sport for amateurs. Those Iron Curtain athletes are state-supported pros, runs the complaint. They have no financial worries, and they train all the time. How can the West compete with a racket like that...
...STATESMAN & NATION : IT is naive of western politicians and papers to be shocked by the strange statements of Khrushchev and Bulganin in their Eastern tour. Molotov made it only too clear at Geneva that the decision not to threaten the world with war did not include any serious intention to lift the iron curtain. Clearly we must take it for granted that the Russian leaders will follow the usual lines of political warfare and select their facts to suit their audiences. It is conceivable that Mr. Khrushchev did not realize that the British have for at least two generations ceased...
Asia in turn differs from both America and Europe in its sacrifice of the individual to the interests of the group, Siegfried went on to say. As America and Asia begin to dominate the world through a mastery of the techniques of mass production, they threaten Europe and Europe's concept of man, he observed...
...there died in a West England village a clergyman named Thomas Robert Malthus, whose bequest to mankind was a somber prophecy that the human race faced strangulation by graphs and curves. The world's population would threaten to outgrow its supply of food, said Malthus, whereupon pestilence, famine and war would follow. During the following century, the world's population did increase, from one billion to more than two billion, but it was amply taken care of by the development of new foods from new lands, by more intensive cultivation...