Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town. A union official comes into the office, presents the company with a proposed labor contract and demands that the company either sign or be picketed. The company refuses because its employees don't want to join that union . . . Now, what happens? The union official carries out the threat and puts a picket line outside the plant, to drive away customers, to cut off deliveries. In short, to force the employees into a union they do not want. I want that sort of thing stopped. So does America...
Even in ordering Namboodiripad out of office, Nehru characteristically sent him assurances of "warm personal regards." Nehru's daughter Indira had no such attitude. What about the Communist threat to stir up trouble all over India? Snapped Indira: "When have the Communists not created trouble...
...Philip Guston: "Only our surprise that the unforeseen was fated, allows the arbitrary to disappear. The delights and anguish of the paradoxes on this imagined plane resist the threat of painting's re-ducibility...
...Threat with Threat." Looking over the ranch house's sleek, gadget-stocked kitchen, Khrushchev showed, as he did dozens of times at the exhibition, the braggy defensiveness that seems to come over Soviet officials when they confront the U.S. standard of living...
Khrushchev (flushed, wagging a finger near Nixon's face): We too are giants. If you want to threaten, we will answer threat with threat...