Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season. Rest had improved his color. He spat on his right hand, grinned, and sent a new white baseball flying to the field, watched the game for an inning and a half (with Washington's Pitcher Connie Marrero standing by to cut off any fouls that might threaten to bean him) before heading, a little shakily, back to the plane...
This would threaten man's supremacy over the machine but not his artistic talents. "One of these machines," Shannon stated, "will collect parts from its environment and assemble them to produce a second machine of the same type, which then starts collecting parts to construct a third machine and so ad infinitum...
...fact that we have been in a position to contribute . . . arms and money does not entitle us to preach or threaten . . . We want not sullen obedience, but friendly cooperation from our allies . . . We want no satellites; we want companions in arms ... I hope I have misread the signs of the revival of the discredited 'dollar diplomacy' . . . Ours must be the role of the good neighbor, the good partner, the good friend-never the big bully...
...those who knew him well, the Rev. Charles L. Dodgson of Oxford University was a confusing fellow. Sometimes he was a stammering mathematician, who lectured so ploddingly that he often had to threaten his students with an extra assignment of "lines" to get them to class. At other times he became Mr. Lewis Carroll, the man who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and had a passion for kittens and children. Last week a Welsh professor reported some curious evidence about a third Mr. Dodgson-the curator of the Christ Church Senior Common Room...
...houses reflects the reality of the Washington political situation. Ike is not a party boss; he does not control Congress. Neither does Robert Taft or anybody else. On nearly everything that Eisenhower wants, he is in agreement with a substantial majority of Congress. The only combination that could threaten the majority would be a highly unlikely coalition of Taftites and Northern Democrats...