Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...particulars" against McCarthy & Co. were circulated around Capitol Hill. Inevitably the bill leaked out to newsmen. To prevent further "piecemeal leaks," Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington, a committee Democrat, released the full text. McCarthy, himself a skillful practitioner of the calculated leak, cried foul. Cohn trumpeted a threat to obstruct the investigation, and demanded an investigation of the leaks. Later he withdrew the threat...
...rising waters. Three cities and towns were flooded; the brown tide covered 50,000 acres. Most of the onion crop in the lower Rio Grande valley, a quarter of the tomato crop and 10% of the cantaloupes were ruined. Health officers labored day and night against the threat of typhoid, by week's end had inoculated 60,000 people...
...Real Threat. "The threat of Communism is a very real one," he said. The party has 25,000 members ("25,000 potential foreign agents"), but is so infiltrated by FBI agents that it "doesn't know which of its Communist members to trust. I assure you, that makes their conspiracy a very hazardous occupation." Smiling slightly, even chuckling once, Brownell gave some samples of FBI undercover work...
...this country . . . Although we must be constantly alert to the danger of Communist infiltration, we should not have exaggerated fears." By the time he got through, Herb Brownell had done more than outline the Administration's coordinated program-"within the framework of the Constitution"-against the internal Communist threat. He had done his best to dismiss McCarthyism as irrelevant to the real job of fighting Communism...
...would wrest from France her sovereignty for 50 years, which means forever . . . and would transfer to the American supreme commander the full right of deciding how France would be defended ... It would dissolve France by merging her with vanquished Germany." For the French who support EDC, he had a threat: if the plan is approved, there will ensue "a state of permanent revolt" in France...