Word: threatfully
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Under the leadership of Charlie Halleck, party discipline is stricter than at any time since the regime of Illinois' tough, pink-bearded "Uncle Joe" Cannon (1903-1911 as Speaker). Sometimes Halleck goes too far. He admits that more than one Republican has been forced into line under threat of being cut off from party campaign funds. At least one Republican, pushed beyond endurance, had to be restrained from swinging on Halleck. Charlie Halleck recognizes the problem. "Some guys say I drive too hard," he says. "You've got to know when...
Shed the Reds. Despite such outbursts, the British are convinced they can work with Lee-or at least that they have to. "I am a non-Communist," he proclaims, and before the campaign ended, speaking more moderately than at the start, he asserted that the worst threat to the new state of Singapore might come from Communist guerrillas trying to sneak over from the Malayan jungles. The British, who will retain control of Singapore's defenses and foreign affairs, are resigned to the political necessity of releasing the imprisoned P.A.P. Communist-liners. But Singapore is no longer so fearful...
...file union members to bring court action against their leaders, etc.] is like arguing in favor of sin." But the bill of rights was in fact "an invitation to litigation, a fertile source of conflict between federal and state law, an improper interference . . . with legitimate union activities, and a threat of probably unconstitutional criminal sanctions." On that basis, the council directed A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany to lay the organization's objections before the House Education and Labor Committee next week. Even as the A.F.L.-C.I.O. leaders were meeting, a vastly powerful outcast from their ranks was dramatically demonstrating...
...three years, Ceylon's frail-looking Premier Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike has needed all his considerable skill at compromise to hold together his United Front coalition. Chief threat: the unsettling presence in his Cabinet of pro-Communist Food and Agriculture Minister Philip Gunawardena...
...research teams, a continent apart, are hot on the trail of poles-apart methods of combatting measles. Traditionally one of the "inevitable" childhood fevers, measles is widely underrated as a health menace. For children under three and for adults, it is a threat to life itself; at any age it can cause brain inflammation, which now (since Salk vaccine) kills more victims than does polio and handicaps about as many by damaging the brain. The progress reports: ¶ Harvard's Dr. John F. Enders (Nobel prizeman because his test-tube foundations made the Salk vaccine possible) and Dr. Samuel...