Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show of the flag in the Eastern Mediterranean, is confident of King Hussein's stability. But, just to make sure, the Pentagon ordered five Sixth Fleet transports, loaded with U.S. Marines and protected by a screen of destroyers, to remain behind for "fire-brigade duty" if the threat of war should flare again...
...unfolding behind grand jury doors with the confession of Communist Spies Jack and Myra Soble and their accomplice, Jacob Albam. In Pennsylvania Bethlehem Steel Corp. lawyers worked and planned against the multimillion-dollar possibility that their proposed merger with the Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. might be adjudged a threat to a free economy. And in Tallahassee, Fla. a White Citizens' Council member spat disgustedly as he spoke of the same "nigger lovin' s.o.b." against whom Southern Congressmen for weeks had been preparing an oratorical assault...
...Manhattan recently went out of business after its enrollment dropped to 400 from 14,000 in 1946). The Soble spy case was so handled that it brought confessions, not controversy. Such is the Brownell security record that FBI Director John Edgar Hoover, no man to low-rate the threat of Communism for the sake of pleasing any Attorney General who happens to be his boss, says the Communist Party in the U.S. is now "stunned...
...years ago first proposed "open skies" over Europe and the U.S. so that each great power could keep aerial watch against surprise attack from the other, Pravda denounced the idea as "spying," and Premier Bulganin tried to laugh it down as daft. Since then, the ratio of missile threat has turned against Moscow. The U.S., with NATO and other partners bordering close, can sight in with shorter-range missiles on the Soviet Union while the U.S. still lies beyond the reach of any but intercontinental missiles. Last week, in their first major move of the 1957 London U.N. Subcommittee...
...scuffling by resentful overseas Chinese was the first outbreak of violence in Saigon in months, and it was no real threat to the regime of Ngo Dinh Diem. Less than three years ago the august Times of London, among other respectable voices, was proclaiming that "Diem has failed as Prime Minister." (The U.S. State Department was resolutely backing him.) Since then, Diem has reorganized his army, defeated and routed the French-supplied guerrilla sects that waged open war on his government and seen a freely elected National Assembly installed in Saigon. Diem's success has also attracted such neutralist...