Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress shifted restlessly from foot to foot, waiting to take off on a ten-day Easter recess. Holding the members back: an eleventh-hour squabble between houses over terms of a bill authorizing $275 million in emergency funds for state public-assistance programs. Breaking down their differences-after a threat by Nevada's "Molly" Malone to talk until the snow was nine feet deep on Pennsylvania Avenue-House and Senate finally escaped Washington until month...
...observers rate Social Credit as a threat to the long-entrenched Liberals who held 168 seats in the last House of Commons. But with energy money and luck they conceivably could elect more HP's this year than the Conservatives (50 seats), take over as the official opposition...
Pete Reider, Dyke Benjamin, and Dave Norris look like sure bets to sweep the two-mile, while captain Dick Wharton, Jim Cairns, down from the 880 to fill in for injured French Anderson, and Al Gordon pose a threat of another Crimson sweep...
Only in the broad jump among the field events, does Princeton pose a serious threat, with three 21 foot-plus jumpers in Murray Peyton, Ray Empson, and Dave Smith. Henry Wente and Dave Gately will have to do much better than their weak showings of last Saturday...
Cannon was still sure that Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield was bluffing in his threat to curtail mail services if Congress did not vote him a $47 million supplemental appropriation for the current fiscal year (TIME, April 15). Cannon was wrong: Summerfield was not bluffing...