Word: threatens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better than the its predecessors. But Godzilla just isn't any bigger and better. The creature has no new powers. It doesn't destroy anything more than it did in the past (in fact it was pretty lenient on Toyko this time). It doesn't travel in space, threaten the moon, or try to stop the Earth from rotating...
...unanticipated impact on academic careers has made it the focus of intense scrutiny by some faculty and administrators, who have led a relentless if futile crusade to purge subjectiveness from its pages. In the process, they have compromised its value to students, and in their zeal, they now threaten to emasculate the guide altogether...
PEACEFUL POLITICAL change, even if it is neither immediate nor comprehensive, is unarguably preferable to violence. The specter of revolution and race war in South Africa is horrifying, for it will inevitably be bloody and threaten to wreek one of the most productive economics in the world. Obviously, the group that would suffer most in such a confrontation is the white establishment--whites stand to lose their wealth, their country, and very possibly their lives. And yet, it is the white government that is giving Black South Africans no option but to engage in violent resistance...
...saving the U.S. and its friends from all sorts of sinister types. Retiring to a mountaintop in California, he hopes to spend the rest of his days in peaceful pursuits, like raising his motherless daughter. But bad guys being bad guys, they want revenge. They kidnap his child and threaten to kill her unless he assassinates the President of a fictional country in Central America. The rest of the film is devoted to Schwarzenegger's pursuit of his enemies. He shoots them, drops them off cliffs, slits their throats, chops off their arms, breaks their necks, and blows them...
...getting ready for dessert," one of the American passengers, Viola Meskin, of Union, N.J., later recalled, "when suddenly we heard gunshots, and someone yelled, 'Get down on the floor!' We heard moaning and groaning. The bandits had struck men in the kitchen, we were told. Then they started to threaten us and show their power. They had hand grenades in their hands, and they would remove the pins and play with them. They constantly had their guns ready for shooting. We were all on the floor." Later on, the gunmen separated the Americans and Britons from the others and placed...