Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good to see the Government considering "positive" action to stem the Communist threat. The Communists have had the initiative long enough . . . Let's call their bluff and go on to show these people of underdeveloped countries that our way of life is far superior to anything the Russians could ever think...
...fought back. "Our allies are already considering rearming Germany without us, and in September they were on the point of doing it without limitations or controls," he argued. "If we refuse it, they will do it just the same." Deputies hooted in disbelief. Had they not defied the last threat of "agonizing reappraisal" and gotten away with it? Mendes recited the new guarantees he had extracted from the U.S. and Britain, and their guarantee of the Saar deal. He pleaded against abstention-though he himself had abstained from voting on NATO and EDC. "It would be better...
...strangest examples of misguided idealism in those innocent first days after World War II was Article 9 in the constitution which Douglas MacArthur handed down to the Japanese. Says Article 9: "The Japanese people forever renounce war as a sovereign right of the nation, and the threat or use of force as a means of settling international disputes. Land, sea and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained." After Korea, Douglas MacArthur himself had to direct a semantic flanking movement around Article 9. Japan's "ground self-defense force" now counts about...
...some Mississippians. Among them: Editor Hodding Carter of the Greenville Delta Democrat-Times, an advocate of gradual desegregation. "Some day," said he last week, "curious and shocked Americans will ask history and each other who were these angry and fearful people who reacted so unwisely to a doubtful threat as to be willing to relinquish to politicians the decision as to whether their hard-gained public-school systems would endure or die . . . Neither do we believe that any county's school system should be permitted to be abolished by a simple majority of the legislature...
...corner of Hurn Airport, near Britain's south coast, stand six black-painted hangars belonging to Vickers Ltd. Inside are planes abuilding that pose the biggest threat to U.S. domination of the world's transport airlanes. The planes are Vickers Viscounts, 48 place, 320-m.p.h. airliners with four turboprop engines. A fortnight ago the first Viscount of a 22-plane order for Trans-Canada Airlines flew across the Atlantic to Montreal. Last week another new turboprop took off for the other end of the world, one of a six-plane order for Trans-Australia Airlines which the company...