Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Abhorring war as a chosen way to balk the purposes of those who threaten us, we hold it to be the first task of statesmanship to develop the strength that will deter the forces of aggression and promote the conditions of peace...
Harry Truman's Administration proved that there simply is no easy, happy ending flowing from persuasion or negotiation with Communism. If, indeed, the hydrogen bomb turns out to be big enough to threaten total destruction of aggressive Communism and outdate all old lessons, then perhaps it is time to talk in plain, unmistakable terms about the bomb (see below) before the Russians .can use the same terms in talking back...
...Telugu claim to include Madras city (pop. 1,400,000) in Andhra. Since then the issue has been complicated by the Indian Communists, who have taken up the Telugu grievance, are now by one vote the largest group among the Telugu-speaking members in the Madras legislative assembly, and threaten to take over Andhra when it is created. Heedless of these hazards, Madras-born Potti Sriramulu announced last October that he would "fast unto death" unless there was an immediate decision...
...shape-up," a ragged morning muster of all the local union longshoremen who want to work. Since there are usually more men than jobs, the boss's power is absolute: he can demand kickbacks, hire & fire at will, dispense I.L.A. union cards at cut-rate initiation fees, and threaten any stevedoring company with a quick strike. Under the union contract, the hiring boss is a foreman appointed by the companies themselves. But he is actually the free & unhampered agent of the local I.L.A. czar...
...sniffs that are as much a Poppins characteristic as her long, turned up nose, her carpetbag (which is always empty and yet, somehow, always contains her starched aprons and a camp bed), and the parrot-headed umbrella which is the closest she gets to a magic wand. Children who threaten to disobey Mary Poppins (it is never more than a threat) are reduced by one glance from her ice-blue eyes. In her latest adventure-fantasy, the creator of Mary Poppins, Australian-born Mrs. Pamela L. Travers, offers a cautionary bit of advice: "I warn you, children, take care...