Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...face of strong statements against prejudgment by Eisenhower and Dulles last week, neither Knowland nor Johnson reiterated his stand. Their critics said that they had retreated from what amounted to an open threat to the U.N. Their partisans replied that 1) they had not retreated, and 2) their sharp pronouncements had worked to nerve the Administration for the unequivocal position it took last week...
...investigation of the Post Office and the Securities & Exchange Commission, the two agencies which had investigated Crummer. "No high-minded advocate would have trafficked so crassly in political pressures," said the subcommittee, "and no public official worthy of his office would have tolerated such a thinly veiled threat...
...begin to play a much more active and dynamic role in foreign affairs than at any time since 1948." Premier Mario Scelba's government seems more and more to promise "a stability for Italy that no one could have foreseen three to four months ago." Though the Communist threat has not diminished, Scelba's firm hand and activity of the free trade unions has done much in twelve months to overcome the weakness shown by the center parties at the elections in June...
...Happy Loser. Last week Ronnie made good Harvey's threat. The boy turned up as a transfer student at U.C.L.A., U. of C.'s arch rival. U.C.L.A., his stepfather explained, has "courses more conducive to his learning." In the process of changing schools, although he has merely switched to another branch of the same university, Ronnie has lost a year's eligibility as a football player, but Harvey Knox is willing to pay the penalty in return for a chance to see Ronnie perform for two years under U.C.L.A. Coach "Red" Sanders. "I like him," said Harvey...
...summer conference on general semantics at St. Louis, Hayakawa organized his antipathy to pop lyrics into a thesis based on what a fellow semanticist has labeled "the IFD disease." IFD, explained Hayakawa, is a "triple-threat semantic disorder" of Idealization (the making of impossibly ideal demands on life), which leads to Frustration (when Idealization's demands are not met), which in turn leads to Demoralization, Tin Pan Alley, says Hayakawa, breeds IFD germs as Jersey swamps breed mosquitoes. "First, there is an enormous amount of idealization, the creation of a wishful dream girl or dream boy, the fleshly counterpart...