Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outright commitment to support any Red Chinese invasion. The two Red partners also used the occasion to woo Japan, urged the Japanese to "liberate" themselves from the U.S. Significantly, the accords totally transformed the status of Japan in Communist eyes. Before, Japan had been portrayed as an "aggressive threat and tool" of the American imperialists, and used as a pretext for the need for Russian troops in Port Arthur. In the accords. Japan was transformed to a "victim" of U.S. occupation...
...letter created the stir that Nehru intended, and its purpose quickly showed through. Nehru was using the threat of resignation to beat down the moderates and right-wingers inside his Cabinet and fix India on a leftward course: more socialism at home, more flirting with Communism abroad. "Gandhi often renounced active membership in the Congress Party when he had difficulties," recalled the Free Press Journal of Bombay. "[Nehru] has been unable to conceal his impatience with India's slow progress toward the Socialist State," reported Calcutta's influential Amrita Bazar Patrika...
...favorite of India's masses. The Congress Party, riddled with corruption and disliked by Indians at large, has no one else of Nehru's stature (Indians sometimes refer to Congress politicos as "pygmies in high chairs") and cannot hope to cling to power without him. If the threat to resign does not in itself quiet the opposition, Nehru is safe in gambling that his actual retirement from the scene for a few months next year would have the politicians crying for him to come back, stronger than ever...
...freshman A football team will be minus its triple-threat tailback Walter Stahura this afternoon when the Yardlings meet Dartmouth in the season's opener at 2 p.m. on Soldiers Field...
...squad's only outstanding back, a triple-threat Massachusetts scoring champ in 1952, may in fact miss one or two of the team's opening games because of an injured ankle. Walter Stahura, powerful Yardling failback and former schoolboy star at Deerfield Academy, should at least miss next Friday's freshman A team opener with Dartmouth. He will probably be replaced by John Hennessy...