Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...essence of their briefing was this: more and more Germans are beginning to hesitate about rearmament, fearful that to proceed with it will foreclose for good the chance of reuniting Germany. The trend is not yet alarming enough to threaten final parliamentary approval of the Paris rearmament accords next month. But unless checked, such sentiment may block the conscription laws and other legislation essential to establish a German army...
...encouraging to see that the forces of public safety in this Common wealth have responded to the challenge of a new era in warfare. They have followed the lead of the national administration in adopting a policy of massive retaliation to deal with the forces that threaten us. Faced with the recent uprising in Charlestown, they did not attempt simply to put more men under arms than the enemy could muster. Realizing that the salaries paid penal officers could never compete with the quick riches to be won by a criminal career in appealing to the underprivileged masses, they spurned...
Libra. Three physicists will be suspended from Government atomic energy laboratories for refusing to believe in mesons. After suffering three straight losses, Princeton coach Charlie Caldwell will threaten to resign from the Ivy League and introduce three-platoon football, "just to be on the safe side." the Lampoon will suspend publication and will sell its building to an expanding submarine-sandwich eatery...
...Knowland's loaded dice definition of co-existence is accepted, then the only solution is to agree with his argument that the United States must attack the Soviet homeland at the slightest provocation. But his reasoning is little short of "preventive war" enthusiasm and would threaten the U.S. with a total conflict involving no real winners. It is the very danger of hydrogen warfare that prompted Eisenhower to affirm that outside of co-existence "there is no alternative to peace." The fallacy of Knowland's charge that co-existence will mean ultimate Soviet victory is best shown by returning...
...others, and to put your children to work. If you do not, your taxes are raised. You learn to be enthusiastic. If you are not, they will whisper from mouth to mouth in your village that you want to be rich, that you are a reactionary. They will threaten you with public discussion. They will isolate you: you will find that your neighbors will not dare speak to you. If this does not teach you joy, they will assign you work that will kill you. And it is never the Communists who do any of these things...