Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shot was fired." The A.D.A.-ish National Committee for An Effective Congress accused Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn of "liberal talking, conservative legislating." And in the latest Democratic Digest, National Chairman Paul Butler took the inside cover to urge the congressional Democrats not to let the veto threat scare them into "watering down our vital programs...
...spectrum of opposition in the armed forces. He fired most of his Cabinet. Notable exceptions: Interior Minister Alfredo Vitolo and the three service secretaries, who were deemed needed to pressure the forces into discipline. Next day Vitolo summoned all the political parties except the Communists and Peronistas, outlined the threat of coup, got all but one of them to agree to support President Frondizi and civilian government against the military. Said the Socialists, who the night before had been demanding Frondizi's resignation: "We are for legality...
Technically, the Christian Democrats and their coalition partners have the votes to put Lübke in, but he faces a genuine threat in the brilliant and scholarly presidential candidate of the Social Democrats, Carlo Schmid. Adenauer's party whips were hard at work rounding up pledges for Lübke, fearing that Christian Democrats who resent Adenauer's recent moves, but have not dared oppose him openly, might take advantage of a secret ballot to vote for Socialist Schmid...
...former Governor General C. Rajagopalachari. So, declared that the methods Gandhi used against the British were not justified "when there is a remedy open according to law." The second reason for the about-face was practical. What had really shaken the Congress Party's nerve was a Communist threat that, unless the Kerala campaign was called off. well-disciplined Red mobs would launch similar assaults against Congress governments in India's other 13 states...
Neither critical opinion, nor press censure, nor threat of legal action, nor the embarrassment of looking a little stuffy last week stayed Postmaster General Arthur E. Summerfield from swiftly reaching a foregone conclusion: The unexpurgated edition of D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is "an obscene and filthy work," and may not be sent through the U.S. mails. He thus continued a 30-year ban, and backed up New York Post Office operatives who vigilantly followed the old ruling last month by seizing 164 copies...