Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that both Egypt and Israel would find an advantage in pledging good behavior to Dag Hammarskjold. But how long would such a guarantee last? The British believe that the eventual danger is from Egypt, once it has absorbed and mastered its Communist weapons, but that the immediate threat is from an Israel tempted to start something before that day comes...
...declared that he would behead Viet Nam's Premier Ngo Dinh Diem as a warning of the power of the Hoa Hao, the piratical "religious" sect that once boasted an army of 20,000 and ruled large areas of Viet Nam as a feudal fief. The threat was characteristic of Ba Cut's fanatic life. At 17, hot-eyed Ba Cut swore he would fight to the death against the French, and he cut off the tip of his forefinger to seal his oath. At 21, he switched, began fighting the Viet Minh. The Geneva conference gave half...
...Mother was indulgent: it was not she but his father who scolded him at the age of two for bedwetting. Father was firm without being harsh. There is no reason to believe that he ever threatened Sigmund with mutilation for masturbating, though this seems to have been a common threat in Europe then. Yet Freud was eventually to decide that every man suffers from a fear of being castrated...
...personality to achieve harmony among id, ego and superego, and this failure in turn results from arrest of development at an immature stage. Commonest cause of emotional disharmony: failure to resolve Oedipal feelings. Example: many girls who profess to seek marriage actually avoid it because the prospect activates the threat of unacceptable emotions which are fixated to their fathers...
...Crusader's chief threat came in the last of the ninth when Kessler weakened and allowed a single and a walk. One pitch later he was out of the jam, as Hastings, Cleary, and Simourian engineered a quick double play to put out the fire...