Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides, soul force had become too catchy. Across the border in Pakistan, 15,000 Moslems were planning to march in satyagraha fashion against Kashmir this month, in protest against India's occupation. And every local disgruntled Indian seemed to be threatening to use satyagraha as a weapon against Nehru's government: Socialists protesting the Congress Party's corruption, right-wingers protesting the Congress Party's socialism Communists protesting against anybody and everything. On a flying tour of Assam, Bihar and Uttar Pradesh states, Nehru was shocked to discover "fissiparous tendencies" among rebellious students, Sikhs Moslems...
...anti-business gadfly. He attacked the Commerce Department's Business Advisory Council (a group of top industrialists and financiers), and tried to push through a bill to put bank mergers under the Antitrust Act. At hearings on his anti-bank merger bill, he charged that bank mergers threaten a "free and competitive economy," but his bill died in the Rules Committee...
...this point, young love, Keystone-cop chases and a burlesque of the Army-McCarthy hearings threaten to run away with Author Toombs's little joke. He pads it out with jabs at bureaucratese ("It's going to take front-office to front-office noodling to get this concretized"), and spurts of sly wit ("Since it was only 8 a.m., it was too early to have a drink, so we were forced to eat on an empty stomach"). After a few more slapsticky twists of the plot, John Henry and Fairweather's friends triumph over Senator Ransom...
...Gideon come back to a place he has avoided for 20 years? What is the fascinating secret of Helen, now one of the town's leading citizens, who once loved him unreservedly? Why do the hotelkeeper, the banker and the lawyer first fawn upon him, then try to threaten and bully him out of town? Since this is a "novel of suspense," such questions inevitably come up but are left simmering until the final chapters. Meanwhile, the fictional characters can be kept scurrying through all manner of apparently unmotivated but obviously hazardous activities...
...correctly states that it is not a superstate or a world federation, but how can you say that "The world is not yet ready, and may never be, for a world government"? All realists must agree that, until the U.N. becomes a limited world federation, world destruction will threaten us at every maneuver of international politics. Will we ever be more ready for world government than...