Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know when he was going to get hep to the T. This season Caldwell has been hearing less & less of that question. His single-wing team has averaged 440 yards a game this year, is still unbeaten and, with Cornell out of the way and only Yale ahead to threaten it seriously, has its best chance in 15 years of ending the season unbeaten...
...original Craig's Wife, Playwright Kelly wrote of a woman who loved her home more than her husband and was willing to risk involving him in a murder because speaking out might threaten her home. Scripters Anne Froelick and James Gunn have dropped the murder from the plot of Harriet Craig. They concern themselves instead with a jealous woman who tries to dominate her husband. This may be the reason the movie loses headway early and becomes a tiresome wait for the worm to turn and give Joan Crawford her comeuppance...
...Faris El Khouri and Iraq's Mohamed Fadhil Jamali moved into the picture with another Assembly resolution entitled "United Action for Peace." It recommended that the Security Council's permanent members (the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China) "meet and discuss ... all problems which are likely to threaten international peace . . ." The big powers would report back to the Assembly the outcome of their umpteenth get-together...
...skip specific scientific, medical and public-health projects. Instead, they would try to find new designs for human relationships which would match the assembly-line achievements of the machine age. One suggested field of endeavor, described in a prime sample of sociological gobbledygook: "The mitigation of tensions which now threaten world peace...
...Pius XII issued an encyclical letter warning the world's Roman Catholics of danger to their church. The first, in March, called attention to such external threats as atheism and Communism. The second, published last week and directed at dangers from within, dealt with "some false opinions which threaten to undermine the foundations of Catholic doctrine...