Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Soviet Dilemma. Before long Humphrey, Sparkman and Fulbright began to bear down on the new threat implicit in the changing Soviet policies. If they expected Dulles to be on the defensive, they were surprised...
ONLY a quick glance at the headlines of recent weeks shows all is far from well in the Western world, that there is no dynamic leadership, that the West has lost the initiative to the Kremlin. There is a serious threat of war in the Middle East that could become another Korea; substantial Soviet gains in South Asia while America's relations with that area decline daily; loss of Cambodia in Southeast Asia to neutralism; serious setbacks to pro-Western Chancellor Adenauer in West Germany; alarming support in Greece for a Communist-backed political coalition; revolutions...
...United States, officials and the people are so diverted by speculation on President Eisenhower's political plans that urgent decisions on foreign aid, foreign information policy, national defense policy, and, most important, on how to meet the new Soviet challenge are pigeonholed. Even with the threat of war in the Middle East, the American government vacillates...
...Soviet rulers are now genuinely and absolutely confident of their position. Internally, they are sure there is no shadow of a threat to their regime. Externally, they are sure that the tide of history is now flowing ever more rapidly in the direction of the world hegemony they seek...
...Force, in all its flux, is nonetheless sustained by a stable strength. In its short ten years of existence as a separate branch of the armed services, it has acquired tradition, theory, individuality, discipline and a high sense of mission-all while being constantly at work to meet the threat that the U.S. has never known before, intercontinental...