Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recorded that the Pope ever asked: "How many divisions has Joseph Stalin?" He knows that Moscow threatens the world not only with its armies but with its perverted faith. Last week, in a 10,000-word encyclical on the heresy of Monophysitism,* the Pope made a strong plea for unity among "all Christians" to throw back "the enemy from Hell." Said Pius XII: "Who is not horrified at the hatred and ferocity with which the God-haters in many parts of the world threaten to stamp out or uproot whatever is divine and Christian? Against this united front, those...
...laid out "a plan of exceptional dimensions"-an "offensive of the world forces of peace." Cahiers outlined the plot: "Principal direction of effort: to isolate 'American imperialism' and its 'servants . . .' Vulnerable points of the adversary: the economic crisis and the general crisis of capitalism which threaten it; the will for peace of all those threatened by 'imperialist adventures...
...Soviet's answer, free of the usual anti-U.S. invective, somewhat plaintively listed alleged Russian grievances against the U.S., including Washington's moves to keep "agents of Soviet culture" out of the U.S. Said the documents: "The Soviet Union has no aggressive plans and does not threaten any country . . . The peoples of the Soviet Union are completely absorbed in executing the tasks of peaceful construction...
...Truman made the gesture of inviting the country's top labor leaders to Blair House, there to promise them that he would go on fighting, and to ask them to help him out. But there was little the labor men could do -except threaten to ask for higher wages the minute the new control bill is passed-and Mr. Truman knew it. Labor leaders had tried to talk up a letter-writing campaign among their rank & file, but no one listened. They suggested that the President might veto the bill. But he only turned a "poker face...
...those who threaten us take only a tyrant's lesson from differences among free men and mistake the temper of our people, they can plunge the world into war . . . [But] the issues which might divide our people are far transcended by the things which unite them. If threatened danger becomes war, the aggressor would find at one' stroke arrayed against him the united energies, the united resources, and the united devotion of all the American people...