Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...limited sovereignty previously agreed to in the Bonn contracts, but wanted "full and unrestricted sovereignty." In other words, gone would be the treaty curbs on rearmament and the reserve emergency powers that would allow the occupation authorities to intervene in West German affairs in case of a serious threat to democratic order...
...wanted the threat defined as "Communist aggression" because it did not want to find itself pledged to stop some other kind of aggression (e.g., an India-Pakistan scrap). The British wanted to take out "Communist" on the grounds that unless this were done, none of the neutralist powers could ever be persuaded to join the alliance...
...Czechs, Slovaks, and even national units formed from escapees from the U.S.S.R.) . . . The idea is that such units, with identifying national uniforms and the non-Communist flags of the enslaved nations, be joined with the defense forces of Western Europe to support and symbolize a united Europe against the . . . threat of Communism . . . The creation of such units is based on the conviction that men presently in Communist armed forces do not willingly support international slavery...
...different approaches is the recklessness with which they are recommended as the 'best' for the future development of 'a child,' without an effort having been made to verify these predictions. Yet they are presented to parents as scientific facts, often with the implied or open threat that any neglect might injure the child and result in neurosis in the dim and dis tant future. Many child-psychology theorists talk with the voice of an oracle predicting future doom...
...threat of it foreclose the lady's world. Needing the gardener's quarters, she asks him to sleep off premises, and he commits suicide. The police curb offshore swimming, the No plays are closed down. To cap these indignities, when Nobuko's son falls ill, her husband's geisha flaunts her status by sending a get-well present for the boy. Nobuko, who almost never sees her husband any more, falls ill (tuberculosis of the bone). In nightly agonies of pain, she struggles with Death, "fighting like a child with only one weapon, talking...