Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Quincy did not do as well in team competition as in the individuals. The hockey team struggled into the play-offs and the basketball team recovered from an early season slump to take a thrid, but their efforts failed to threaten the league leaders...
...like really getting into it tonight. "I've just had an idea," he says. "Tonight I want you to try and play each act like it was the whole show." Once the play starts he can't do a damn thing about it. Until then he can coax them, threaten them, scream at them. Tonight he is coaxing...
...foreign infiltration of the Greek secret services. The CIA especially had every reason to want to get rid of him. Moreover, Andreas and George were both fervently in favor of ENOSIS or union with Cyprus. The U. S. opposed ENOSIS because it would damage relations with Turkey and threaten the southern flank of NATO. Thus, the U. S. had good reason to prefer a military dictatorship to a Papandreou regime...
...American people by spending ten billion dollars over five years for anti-pollution controls. But "the quality of life represents more than clean air and water: it should be the product of a national concern for the political and physical environment. Until the political inequities that ??? and threaten many people in this ??? are ended, there is little basis for ??? an improving quality of life...
...right to threaten war if the Russians try to take over West Berlin. It is all right to send Marines to the Dominican Republic to prevent a Communist takeover. It is all right to wage an endless war to make sure that the authoritarian North Vietnamese don't get the better of the corrupt and grafting South Vietnamese...