Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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More than that, the President added, the "serious allegations and accusations hang like a sword over our former President's head and threaten his health as he tries to reshape his life." Most important, Ford hoped that the pardon would help heal the nation. Any move to bring Nixon to trial, the President noted, would have taken many months or years. During that period "ugly passions would again be aroused, our people would again be polarized in their opinions, and the credibility of our free institutions of Government would again be challenged at home and abroad...
Bunting was both realistic and optimistic in her analogy. She understood that an agreement between Harvard and Radcliffe would threaten Radcliffe's identity and only enhance Harvard's. Harvard, with its vast resources, would definitely be the base colony in any effort to bring the two hives closer together...
Though it sounds like the plot from the science fiction flick Them, in which giant ants threaten mankind, the green-ant menace is serious to the aborigines...
...afraid to be successful, afraid to compete with men. Her subjects, male and female college students, described successful women as neurotic, over-aggressive, and generally unhappy. Achievement in a man's world seemed to conflict with society's demand that women be "feminine," good mothers and wives, and never threaten...
...suspended no fewer than five times-for drinking, being late to games, and disobeying the formidable commissioner of baseball, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. (He did not, as has often been reported, hold the Yankees' minuscule manager Miller Muggins off the rear platform of a train or threaten to drop him. But he might have...