Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, as a result, the struggle to stimulate his avarice and his adrenal glands, channel his capacity for hero worship-and, at times, to threaten him subtly with the horrors of being a social outcast (see RADIO)-tied up whole brigades of high-powered executives and fortunes in speculative capital. Twenty-five million U.S. children in the most receptive age bracket (4 to 13) were tumbled ceaselessly in a sea of entertainment, while in the background bugles pealed, hoofbeats drummed, tires screeched, gunfire echoed and stentorian voices bawled the advantages of endless yummy products...
...front. On the east coast the Reds were stopped with the help of Allied airplanes and naval gunfire, from the cruiser Rochester and a destroyer. This week the South Koreans were again rapidly pushing toward the Red-held port of Chongjin. They also shoved a force inland to threaten the flank of the enemy units facing the U.S. 7th Division...
...women. From the Montanist movement on, "the history of enthusiasm is largely a history of female emancipation, and it is not a reassuring one . . . The sturdiest champion of women's rights will hardly deny that the unfettered exercise of the prophetic ministry by the more devout sex can threaten the ordinary decencies of ecclesiastical order...
Dudley and Silliman, teams which have lost all other games during the season, fought to a scoreless tie yesterday. Dudley made three concerted efforts to score, while Silliman failed to threaten once. Two passers, Dave Mahoney for the Commuters and John Goldsmith for Silliman, stood out for their long throws...
When an over-capacity crowd is expected at a similar event in the future, perhaps some loudspeaker system could be devised which would threaten neither the priorities nor the personal safety of the audience...