Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troops of the Eighteenth Red Army line the vital Chumbi Valley between Bhutan and Sikkim. They are quartered in twelve barracks, and up to 50 new barracks are being constructed. To the west, Chinese garrisons at Gartok, trade center of western Tibet, and six other strategic locations threaten the Indians in Kashmir...
Tabor dominated the game so thoroughly that the Yardlings did not threaten to score until late in the fourth quarter...
While the varsity doesn't figure to threaten the leaders, it should finish better than last year's 15th place finish...
...were disturbed because Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who spoke in the district three weeks before election, had not come forward with a specific farm program, but had again and again indicated that he had grave reservations about the present (i.e., the Democratic) farm program. Benson seemed to threaten a change, but he had not said to what...
Sidewalk Cafe was painted in 1888 at Aries, in the south of France, before Van Gogh had succumbed to the mental horrors which caused him to threaten his friend, Painter Paul Gauguin, with a knife (later that evening Van Gogh cut off his own ear to give to a prostitute). Still untouched by disease, the painting presents a cozy, lovely corner of a friendly night, not the troubled night of his later work; it is proof of Van Gogh's contention that "the night is more alive and more richly colored than...