Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...centuries the fierce Berber tribes, sons of Ham, have been the scourge of Morocco. Time and again they have come galloping down from the Atlas Mountains to loot and rape. Because the French have not hesitated to use them for "pacifying" rebellious villages, they were always a threat to the Moroccan independence movement. One exception were the Tafilalet Berbers, led by Chief Addi ou Bihi, who sided with exiled Sultan Mohammed ben Youssef. When Ben Youssef was restored to the throne in 1955 to become the first Sultan of Free Morocco, one of his first acts was to appoint Addi...
Unrepentant and unhurrying to the end, the Israelis finally agreed to pull their troops out of the Sinai desert this week, under threat of still another U.N. censure vote. By an overwhelming 74-to-2 vote (France was the other nay), the General Assembly called on Israel to withdraw within five days behind the 1949 armistice line. Both Britain and the U.S. first worked to avoid an outright condemnation of Israel, and then supported the resolution. Though agreeing to withdraw, Israel attached conditions. It insisted that Egypt must never return to Gaza, which was in fact a part...
...facts: the Israelis were still occupying part of Sinai and all of Gaza, and refusing to pull out of their positions at the mouth of the Gulf of Aqaba until the Egyptians guaranteed them free access to the Red Sea. The new U.S. Middle East policy, with its implied threat to isolate Nasser if he refuses to play the game with the Western side, was a blow to Egyptian hopes that President Eisenhower had turned irrevocably against the British, French and Israelis...
...Paris that Nasser insists "that no Suez settlement is possible as long as Israel does not withdraw its troops behind the 1949 armistice lines." Egypt's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi demanded a special U.N. Assembly session on Israel's delay in evacuating Sinai and Gaza, on threat of "extremely serious consequences." These might include a threat to halt work on the canal, which would bring down on Nasser's head the wrath of the U.N. and the U.S. A British visitor who called on the strongman last week reported: "Colonel Nasser told me the only thing...
...comparing a.geisha to a prostitute is abhorrent. With the collapse of old traditions and the adoption of new standards in democratic Japan, the tightly cocooned and tradition-encrusted world of the geisha (whose name means literally "person of art") has undergone some drastic changes and constantly faces the threat of more. A good geisha today must be able to play not only the ancient mandolin-like samisen and the plaintive flute but an adequate 18 holes of golf as well, in case her patron wishes her to accompany him on a country-club weekend. She should be able to discuss...