Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy lessen U.S. support of the United Nations. By setting up new safeguards against the external Soviet threat, the U.S. hoped that the U.N. would be able to grapple more freely and more effectively than ever before with the region's internal problems, e.g., Israel v. the Arabs. And as for subversion, Dwight Eisenhower was already on the record that he would oppose the entry into the Middle East of any Soviet "volunteers...
...elected President would be confronted by a Congress controlled by the opposition. Crisis in the Middle East strained and stretched (but did not break) the historic alliance with Britain and France, even while crisis in Poland and Hungary demonstrated to the world anew the weaknesses (and the constant threat) of that long-standing cold-war antagonist, the Soviet Union. Economically, the boom kept booming, but now there were complaints about inflation on the one hand and "tight money" on the other. In Montgomery, Ala., Negroes and whites rode together on buses-at least in the daytime and signaled the passing...
...Foster Dulles estranged the British and led them to their decision not to advise the U.S. of their plan to attack Egypt with the French and Israelis. Acheson does not necessarily approve the attack on Egypt, but thinks that once it was begun, the U.S. should have used the threat of its fleet, if necessary, to guarantee that the attack would be successful and bring Nasser's downfall. The U.S., he adds, should never have taken its case against the aggressors to the United Nations until the Suez Canal was in British-French hands, and there, somehow managing...
...quixotic little uprising in Cuba a month ago and its accompanying 82-man rebel invasion were never a major military threat to Strongman Fulgencio Batista, as even the revolutionaries would concede (TIME, Dec. 10). But the rebels did hope that a bold show of opposition might rally the government's disorganized enemies to guerrilla war and sabotage that would, if long continued, shake Batista's government down. Last week, with bombing, killing and arson on the rise, the regime was clearly fearful of such a possibility-and trigger-happy at the thought...
...Baylos threat may succeed in scaring minor offenders away from free-plugging, but the big-timers will undoubtedly go right on stocking their cellars and larders with the old payola...