Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...South Viet Nam's only real protection against a renewal of full-scale war will be a U.S. threat to invoke the eight-nation Manila defense treaty...
...belonged to one of the neutral countries, I should urge my government, and any other neutral government that might be willing to listen, to take very active steps to persuade both sides simultaneously to abandon the threat of war as an instrument of policy. It may be feared that neutral governments will shrink from a task which is likely to offend the most powerful nations of the world, for there is one matter on which all the powerful nations appear to be agreed, and that is that neutrality is an offense against morality and decency...
...reasons was the spread of price-cutting. To meet the growing threat from discount houses, some department stores cut prices on the thousands of products on the Fair Trade list (e.g., cameras, toys, cosmetics, small appliances, sporting goods, jewelry, drugs). Since General Electric Co. pulled out the props from under major-appliance prices (TIME, Dec. 6), the fixed-price line has been rapidly crumbling despite a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, which last week again refused to question the validity of Fair Trade laws, thus in effect gave them its blessing...
...Hollywood, Moviemaker Dore Schary predicted that a minor depression would hit his industry when color TV is widely seen in U.S. homes. But Schary expressed no dismay over the threat to movies of current black-and-white TV. Judging by most of last week's shows, he had little to worry about...
Greater than our vague social responsibility to expand per se, he believes, is our responsibility "to maintain the highest level of liberal education ... even more so because of the threat of the serious watering down of liberal education...