Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...seemed almost like a miracle drug. Cheap and efficient, it destroyed pests, reduced such insect-borne diseases as malaria, and brought bumper harvests. But over the years scientists found disturbing evidence, first publicized in Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, that DDT was harmful to animals too, and might threaten man as well...
...resolution introduced by James Q. Wilson, chairman of the Government Department, the Council stated that "an unlimited right of grand juries to ask any question and to expose a witness to citations for contempt could easily threaten scholarly research...
...booth offering a chance to enlist in the Angolese rebel army, how many do you suppose would sign up?" This is somewhat irrelevant, as is black Professor Martin Kilson's insistence that black students should give up their scholarships before demanding action from Harvard which might threaten its investment return. Nevertheless, the connection between such protests and relief from oppression for Angolese people is about as distant as it can be. One wonders if the president of Gulf was even vaguely aware of the crisis to which the president of Harvard had to devote full-time for nearly a month...
Pauline Kael, LL.D., film critic, The New Yorker. Like Godard with his guillotine lens, she writes with an often acerbic pen, cutting through the can of films that threaten to dehumanize us. William McC. Martin Jr., LL.D., former Federal Reserve Board chairman...
...terminal-cancer case were doubtless among the revelers-if indeed they existed. FBI agents last week interviewed a student at Manhattan's Hunter College. One day before the Q.E. 2 was threatened, as it happened, her creative-writing workshop had discussed a short story she had written about a woman cancer victim and her friend, a male proofreader, who sail aboard the Queen and threaten to blow it up unless a famous diamond is surrendered to them. Wondering if life had imitated art with curious proximity, agents began checking out the workshop members...