Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gentlemen, in order to solicit your support in holding the balance even between the practical and immediate on the one hand and the fundamental and enduring on the other. For it is from ardent friends of the university that many of the demands arise that seem to me to threaten the long-term contributions of the Harvard company of scholars. We need have no fear that in these days we shall be too little concerned with the urgent problems of the moment. The pressures are all in one direction. There force, when the alumni meet here on Commencement afternoon...
...unchanging Communist objective to obtain control of the entire Korean peninsula"-whether "this year, or five or ten years hence." The loss of Korea would "very definitely" threaten the security of Japan and "vitally menace the military security of the American people...
...carefully avoided any phrasing which would threaten a final break, but the Reds, who had suffered from temporary interruptions before, seemed anxious that the daily meetings continue. They did continue-in the form of 10-to-20-minute token sessions, mostly given over to Red stalling and propaganda. Perhaps the Communists were afraid that a breakoff would lead to heavier fighting, and that the defections in the U.N. prison camps-which had obviously surprised them-might spread to their fighting armies...
...citizens don't run wild in fear of the roof-top-stalking menace with a carbine and a good eye. The socialites act like socialites and demand the police "do something," and the newspapermen behave almost like newspapermen and threaten to turn the mayor out, of office if the killer is not caught. Except for a couple of lucky breaks, necessary to catch the sniper in an hour and a half, the police go through the dull routine of looking for tips on an unknown man who shoots almost anyone, anywhere, at any time...
...course played his part, refusing to grant the Cinema Society a license. He argued on a technicality, but admitted that strong pressure had been brought to bear on him. And even if his verdict has only a temporary effect, few Boston theater-owners dare to flaunt pressure groups that threaten to haul out the placards and begin marching. At any rate, Birth of a Nation, scheduled for April 25-27 and widely advertised as such, has yet to grace a Boston screen this year...