Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What worries Jones and other tribal leaders is the lurking threat that, as landowning Navajos outside the reservation get hold of oil-lease money to spend any way they want to, envious Navajos inside the boundaries will insist on getting rid of council control and dividing up the oil income among the individual families. That kind of pressure is already violent among the neighboring Southern Utes: a few weeks ago Indian thugs jumped Southern Ute Council Chairman John Baker, No. 1 opponent of the clamorous share-the-wealth faction, and beat him unconscious...
...from Israeli attack," began pulling out of Mafrak and Irbid. The Syrian soldiers, usually seen strolling in the public squares unshaven, holding hands and eating ice cream, are not highly esteemed as fighting men. They are sloppy and undisciplined, and their presence had always been much more of a threat to Jordan than to Israel. The troops' departure was speeded by Hussein's influential new ally, King Saud of Saudi Arabia, who persuaded both Syria and Egypt that it would be better for the Syrians...
...Libby is not alarmed by strontium 90. In his widely publicized letter to Missionary-Physician Albert Schweitzer (TIME, May 6), he said that its threat to growing children is at present about the same as from "the additional dosage that a resident at sea level would receive from cosmic rays if he moved from a beach to the top of a hill a few hundred feet high...
Both the U.S. and Britain are apparently keeping their large test bombs as clean as possible, presumably by increasing the proportion of energy that comes from nuclear fusion (hydrogen) reactions. This does not mean, however, that clean bombs will take the global threat out of nuclear...
...claiming that "Clear Heads Call for Calvert Taste." Its Calvert subsidiary ran the ads despite the Government's disapproval-based on the ad's implicit promise of freedom from hangover. But it later changed the wording to "Clear Heads Agree: Calvert Tastes Better" after a threat of formal charges. While Seagrams nervously denies that it is trying to make a test case for the industry, Vice President