Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...addition, Nasser is most anxious to establish an Egyptian hegemony among the Arab states. Only the threat of an outside foe can overcome the mutual jealousies that ordinarily tend to separate the Arabs, so once again, Allon said, Nasser must keep before his would-be allies the image of a threatening Israel...
...among the party rank and file, particularly in the provinces, and to make himself a popular figure with peasants and workers. He had relaxed the police control, freed many prisoners; he had associated himself with such popular projects as better housing, free farming, decentralized industry, and freedom from the threat...
...instead of being centralized in Moscow. He could argue that the Moscow bureaucracy was top-heavy; it is. But Khrushchev had another motive. As Stalin's personnel manager, Malenkov had been largely responsible for building up the industrial technocracy. He had his principal supporters there. Malenkov saw a threat to his own strength, and fought back...
...qualifying under this "special" educational dispensation, the income requirement should be kept at $56 (which excludes all but a handful of top Negro wage earners) and that the enrollment of "special" voters should not be permitted to exceed 20% of the total electoral roll. Faced with Todd's threat to resign if they balked, the legislators surrendered...
...reassurances that Japan maintains "residual sovereignty" over the American-occupied Bonin and Ryukyus Islands, including Okinawa; i.e., it will eventually get them back, but not until conditions "of threat and tension" abate in the Far East...