Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outlined three points that the U.S. should follow to achieve peace in the world. The country should first recreate a power equilibrium to offset the vacuum left at the end of World War II when Germany and Japan ceased to threaten Russia's borders...
...before they win a contract, and, under the system of late bidding, no company has time enough to buy the equipment after winning a contract. Therefore, no new company bids. If the Boston Public Works Department officials felt that the old contractors were being unreasonable, it couldn't even threaten to take over the work because there never was time before January 1st to make adequate preparations. Under these conditions, the old contractors charged whatever they felt like...
...colleges, however, have usually spotted the distinction; they have seen that freedom of expression can be one of the biggest factors in giving them a "good name" to protect. Brown, on the other hand, has just joined the ranks of colleges that punish undergraduates when they say things which threaten the college's policies or "good name." Brown is not alone. Princeton, Radcliffe, Brooklyn, Adelphi, and others have incurred public ridicule by disciplining students in retribution for "objectionable" articles in undergraduate publications...
...expressed the conviction then that peace would be achieved not by arms but by an appeal to reason. Now, the future which he laid out was decidedly grey-a future of "the long pull." Said the President: "We do not know how long Communist aggression will threaten the world...
...first big layoffs because of shortages and prospective war production began to threaten U.S. industry. Nash-Kelvinator Corp. announced that by Jan. 15 it would cut back 18% of its work force, or 4,500 employees, and slash auto production by 25%. Because of other cutbacks in the auto industry, Michigan expected that the state's unemployment total, which had jumped by 13,000 to 65,000 in the latest week, would hit 150,000 by summer...