Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desperately convinced that Jordan's only way to survive as a kingdom was to qualify for U.S. Eisenhower Plan aid, the young King wrote a blunt letter to Premier Nabulsi: "We now detect the danger of Communist infiltration in our Arab homeland, and the threat posed by those who feign loyalty to Arab nationalism, indulge in hullabaloo, prevarications, falsehood and heroics, thereby seeking to conceal their evil designs against Arab nationalism and the fact that they cooperate with our enemies in misleading the masses and exploiting the people." He demanded that Nabulsi purge his Cabinet of its three most...
...himself barely-escaped from the massacre in the northern capital, hinted at storms and trouble, it was in such bucolic scenes as Cowherds Fleeing Storm. An even more extreme reaction to the mounting threat of further Chin and Mongolian attacks was the withdrawal of the Ch'an (Zen) Buddhist painters to secluded mountain retreats...
...first ran into trouble when he decided that the university should abolish entrance requirements for Nevada high-school graduates. He also did away with the Academic Council, which had played a part in forming university policy. To some faculty-men, Stout seemed not only highhanded; he also seemed a threat to academic standards. Especially critical was Biologist Frank Richardson, who in 1952 circulated among his colleagues an article by Historian Arthur Bestor Jr. attacking the brand of educational thinking that President Stout appeared to represent (TIME, June 15, 1953). To Stout, Richardson's act was the climax...
...voluntarily by oil companies, Government believes. After trying unsuccessfully for two years to hold down imports (now running 510,000 bbl. a day more than Government wants as limit), Office of Defense Mobilization is conferring with top oilmen, is confident they will bow to President Eisenhower's implied threat to impose Government controls, tariffs on imports...
Wyoming's Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, who has been sniping away for months at the foreign operations of U.S. oil firms, last week developed a new line of attack. He asked the Administration to consider imposing a tariff on oil imports, to offset "the threat to our national security" resulting from the loss of tax revenues from overseas oil operations. What Senator O'Mahoney meant in particular was the Arabian American Oil Co.'s tax arrangement with Saudi Arabia, through which Aramco last year avoided paying a penny of corporate income...