Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Says Osborne: "Unthinkingly and stupidly, I left London Airport for the Savoy without permission or visa, and the immigration and customs officials were in a splendid rage when Allen brought me back. His good offices and honest English face did more than my arguments to allay the quite serious threat of jail thrown at me by the officials...
Before Italy's Chamber of Deputies, Premier Mario Scelba spoke solemnly of affairs of state-taxes and governmental reform, his government's support of EDC, the dangers of Communism and neo-Fascism. But the immediate threat to his new regime involved none of these, nor did it lie within the walls of the chamber. It came from a courtroom a few blocks away, where, as Scelba urged the Deputies to confirm his Cabinet, there unfolded an unsavory story of corruption in high places, of playgirls and midnight orgies and expensive decadence revolving around the figure of a marchese...
...Underlying Threat." All the while, Jim Carey had been putting on the pressure to get the union to switch to I.U.E. He argued privately with Jandreau, pointing out that his local was losing strength, while publicly branding Jandreau as the kind of "Communist union agent who constitutes the underlying threat" to U.S. security. Fellow U.E. members gossiped that there was another source of pressure on Jandreau. His wife Ruth, a onetime Communist Party leader in New York, has reportedly broken with the party and is planning to rejoin the Roman Catholic Church...
...divided on its prospects. With a note of warning, General Matthew Ridgway commented on the "New Look" before a Senate committee last week. "We are steadily reducing Army forces," he said, "a reduction through which our capabilities will be lowered while our responsibilities for meeting the continued enemy threat have yet to be correspondingly lessened." Contested on technical as well as on policy grounds, the Administration's "New Look" in defense faces unsure political future...
Drawing on the historical background of his first address, Stevenson concluded that even without the threat of Russia, the U.S. would be faced with "the revolution of rising expectations"--Stevenson defined this as pressure from the Eastern world for engineering aid, industrialization, and relief from chronic unemployment...