Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...First District, Republican Louise Shadduck, 39, is just beginning to make progress against 50-year-old Incumbent Democrat Grade Pfost (pronounced, as in her 1952 campaign slogan, "Tie Your Vote to a Solid Post"). In the populous Sixth District of New Jersey, Republican Assemblywoman Florence Dwyer is a real threat to hardworking, young (36) Democratic Representative Harrison ("Pete") Williams Jr. And in West Virginia, Republican Mary Elkins, 53, wife of onetime (1919-25) Senator Davis Elkins, has an advantage over most House candidates in her race against Democratic Incumbent Harley Staggers, 49. A Washington socialite with a West Virginia address...
...Deaf Ear. Though the threat of war had temporarily diminished, his British allies continued to do their best to convince King Hussein that this was no time for Jordan to be holding elections. Hussein, whose overriding objective is to maintain his popularity with his mercurial subjects, turned a deaf ear to these appeals. Said he: "The elections will be held," and at week's end they were, in an atmosphere of surprising calmness...
...five years. Head has recently been under an avalanche of criticism in the press for his frenzied calling up of some 20,000 reserves on short notice. In the first angry moment of the Suez crisis, the regular army was too sprawled out and disorganized to provide a real threat to Egypt's Colonel Nasser...
Dartmouth's one offensive threat was the right arm of Brown. He completed eight of 15 passes for a total of 125 yards, but was rushed, and rushed hard, by the Crimson line. Six times he was caught behind the line of scrimmage, and each time the Dartmouth attack stalled...
Adlai Stevenson has recently taken a forthright stand on stopping the tests of multi-megaton weapons. His proposal has been called "dangerous" and "visionary" by the Republicans. In particular, they have scoffed at the threat of radioactive strontium contamination. Even Senator Kefauver is quoted by the New York Times (Sunday, Oct. 21, p. 55) as conceding that the tests could be continued for thirty years at the present rate without damage. However, Ralph Lapp, the eminent nuclear physicist, has recently found an error of a factor of forty in the rate of accumulation of this deadly poison. In an article...