Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Echoing the classical threat in Lysistrata, Mrs. Norah Hinks urged the National Conference of Labor Women at Torquay to lock their husbands out of their bedrooms until the government agreed to call off the H-bomb tests. After three hours' bitter wrangling with the pacifists and Bevanites in his own parliamentary party, Gaitskell caved in. To avoid a party split, he backed a compromise, urging postponement of the tests for a "limited period...
...done here is wonderful," said one. Said Takanaga Mitsui of the famed Mitsui industrial clan: "In some ways you Okinawans are better off than the Japanese." Added another Japanese Diet member: "We want the U.S. to stay in Okinawa as long as there is a Russian and Chinese threat...
...lecture, too little prodded into original work? Charles Odegaard, dean of the College of Literature. Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan, felt that the answer, when he wrote a special letter to some top members of his faculty in 1955, was yes. "There is a constant threat," he warned his readers, "that our educational practices will be dictated by the lowest common denominator...
...going to destroy the republic," Cannon said in a floor speech, if the postmaster general carries out his threat to curtail mail services drastically for the balance of the fiscal year...
...Shahn last night attacked modern "conformism" as a threat to artistic expression, and stressed that "nonconformity is a precondition...