Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threat of force all but disappeared from the Suez crisis last week, and a Western strategy of massive but peaceful pressure took its place...
...that "the talks have come to a complete end," that the committee was going home without further palaver. At the same time word leaked that committee members were bitterly angry at President Eisenhower for promising a "peaceful solution" in Suez at the exact moment when the committee thought the threat of force might have influenced Nasser...
Rule of East Pakistan by the Awami League, which wants Pakistan to switch to a neutralist foreign policy, carried unpleasant implications for the U.S., which considers Pakistan its most reliable ally on the Asian continent. It also posed a considerably more immediate threat to Prime Minister Mohamad Ali, 51, the lean financial expert who has led Pakistan's central government for 13 turbulent months. In the last two years Pakistani politicians have taken to switching parties with all the abandon of a woman trying on hats, and it was now almost certain that a number of East Pakistan members...
...proud man, and sought to formulate a control plan for the Suez in such a disarming way that he could accept it. The French and British, on the other hand, seemed to size up Nasser as a power-minded man who, far from being scared off by the threat of force, had to be confronted with it in order to be brought around...
Inflation, or the threat of it, is at least partly responsible. Louis Ogens, a 46-year-old Chicago mail clerk who, with his wife, Frances, is paying off $152.90 in installment loans plus $97.50 in rent a month on total monthly take-home pay of $658, says he learned his lesson as a G.I. in inflation-crippled China. Ogens' slogan: "Get in debt on the high dollar, pay off in the low dollar." Says he: "Then there's the $200-or 300-a-year income-tax deduction you can take for interest payments...