Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tension and threat of violence hanging over the Arab world last week got much too personal for two of our reporters. Paris Correspondent William McHale, covering the unrest in North Africa (see FOREIGN NEWS), was caught out after curfew one night near Algiers. Stopped by Senegalese troops with fixed bayonets, McHale was prodded off to the commissariat by a young French machine gunner with an itchy finger. When the correspondent showed his press pass, the nervous Frenchman snapped:"That doesn't mean a thing-this is war!" At the commissariat, luckily, cooler heads prevailed: McHale was released after...
...early winter, when Estes Kefauver announced his candidacy, few politicians or political reporters were listening carefully enough to catch the threat in his tone. To almost every question, the Tennessee Senator's answer was a capsule of political skill, and his comment about the Minnesota primary was perhaps the best of all. Would he go into Minnesota, asked a reporter, and face Adlai Stevenson...
...Florida Gulf Life Insurance Co. (which does about $6,000,000 a year in business from Negroes) was threatened by boycott after one of its directors, Sumter Lowry, filed as a race-baiting candidate for governor. Lowry was swiftly dropped from the Gulf directorate, and the threat eased. But C. Blythe Andrews, publisher of a Tampa Negro weekly, says: "If, after the first primary or later, we find General Lowry has been put back on the board, the insurance company will be in for trouble...
...that the stubbornly held policy of declining an arms race was serving its purpose. With Communist arms, Premier Abdel Gamal Nasser's vaunted dream of creating an Arab empire to thrust the West from the Middle East and North Africa as well, seemed suddenly pore reality than paper threat...
Physically Lowell is the most beautiful House on campus. Its large and small courtyards are dominated by a massive belltower harboring the major threat to Sunday quiet along the river front. But even when the large Russian bells shatter the air at 12:30 p.m. few residents are disturbed. They merely flock to the dining hall and create the longest line of the week...