Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Israel matched Egypt shout for shout, threat for threat. The Egyptian move to take over Gaza's civil administration was a long way from the unilateral "assumptions" that Israel had depended upon in agreeing to withdraw from Gaza. Premier Ben-Gurion gravely faced the Knesset and warned that Israel's troops might soon have to march again. Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Abba Eban was called away from a well-earned Florida vacation to present to Acting State Secretary Christian Herter a Ben-Gurion message describing the situation as extremely critical...
...although recent events have proved that international Communism is "a passing and not a permanent phase," Dulles warned the members of the eight-nation group (U.S., Britain, France, New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, the Philippines, Pakistan) that SEATO must maintain its posture of defense-both militarily, against the ever-present threat of Red Chinese attack, and internally, against Peking's stepped-up campaign of subversion in Southeast Asia. And for the information of the delegates, Dulles reiterated the U.S. position on the two Chinas, i.e., nonrecognition of the Chinese Communist regime, opposition to its seating in the U.N., and steadfast...
Railway union leaders rejected a government wage award yesterday and threatened to add another nation-wide strike to Britain's labor disputes in the shipbuilding and heavy machinery industries. The railroad strike threat developed 24 hours after 2 1/2 million factory workers received union orders to begin a "snowball" walkout next Saturday in manufacturing plants throughout the nation...
JERUSALEM, March 19--The open threat of a new war emerged today from Israel's dismay at Gaza Strip and Aqaba Gulf developments since she turned over those battle-won territories to the United Nations...
...rejection of their whole administration, and resign before the Assembly actually votes no-confidence. Also, votes of no-confidence and censure have again developed into common weapons, and are not the exceptional measures they were intended to be. Cabinets have used the "informal vote of confidence," i.e., a threat of resignation in the absence of parliamentary approval on policy, as a frequent weapon rather than an occasional defense...