Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to make public my profound regret that anything said in that context should have been so misconstrued and abused that it would damage Dr. Peters and threaten his distinguished future career as a scientist...
...Kids threaten and have beaten up teachers who wouldn't graduate or promote them ... In Brooklyn, a teacher who reported a group of vandals to the principal was confronted in his office the next day and told he would be thrown out the window ' the next time he 'snitched...
Regrettably many Republicans in the Senate, disregarding 1952 platform promises, threaten to vote against the measure because "Democratic" Alaska is included. And at present it seems likely that the Southern Democrats, with the help of that group of Republicans who want statehood only for Hawall, will be able to defeat the double-barreled bill. Opposition to the joint admission of two territories on the basis of their party voting habits in politicking tof the worst sort. "Republican" Hawaii and "Democratic" Alaska should come into the union together...
...constant supervision of Greek Communist secret police. The children were sent to "vocational school" to learn the principles of "good citizenship." "They had only one objective: to change our opinions and beliefs," said Christopher Moschou. "First, they would be sweet. Then they would become hard and they would threaten. They told us that jail and torture awaited us when we got back to Greece." It was their fellow Greeks who did most of the threatening. "The Hungarians," said another captive, "left us pretty much alone. But our own Greeks−it makes me ashamed...
Shunning the pedestrian gimmicks of familiar 2-D swashbuckling movies, MGM has contrived a new set of problems for Taylor. There is, of course, the scene with the hero trapped in his palace room as a group of adversaries outside threaten to break down the door. Knights of the Round Table adds a degree of sophistication: Robert Taylor discovers that his sword is out at the blacksmith's for repairs and has to fight off the first few rogues with a torch. Later, in the wrestling scene between the cunning antagonist and the formidable knight, the pair work their...