Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barlas, a strong-armed right-hander, went five innings for B.U. and got credit for the win. He had to be lifted in the sixth, however, when the Crimson had runners on first and third with nobody out. Relief pitcher Vaughn Stedman stopped the varsity threat, and gave up only one hit the rest...
Panic & Delay. Long lines-some said the longest in memory-formed outside Commons hours before Sir Winston strode in, to answer a Laborite motion labeling the thermonuclear bomb a "grave threat to civilization" and seeking a Big Three meeting. Sensational left-wing papers fed the public outcry with near-hysterical headlines. Trying to stave off the panic, Churchill at first nourished it last week by admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing...
Even a bigger threat to history, says Carson, is the growing preoccupation with the present, fostered largely by the social sciences. "The teaching of history before the first world war has been indicted for . . . not keeping the subject matter up to date. The history student of 1910 ended his study of history with the Franco-Prussian War, or thereabouts ... As a consequence, we are told, the generation in 1914 was badly prepared for the social cataclysm...
After weeks of intense behind-scenes discussion in Washington, the U.S. firmly made up its mind about Indo-China, and this week Secretary of State Dulles spoke it. The U.S. does not intend to accept a Communist victory in Indo-China, he said. The U.S. feels that the threat should be met with "united action," even though "this might involve serious risks." And if Red China sends "its own army into Indo-China, the grave consequences might not be confined to Indo-China...
...Communist control of Southeast Asia would carry a grave threat to the Philippines, Australia and New Zealand, with whom we have treaties of mutual assistance. The entire West Pacific area, including the so-called 'offshore island chain,' would be strategically endangered...