Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, with tension eased by a long weekend adjournment after Toriello's blast, the U.S. put forward its anti-Communist resolution. The resolution provided that the republics agree that "domination or control of the political institutions of any American state by the international Communist movement . . . would constitute a threat . . . and call for appropriate action in accordance with existing treaties." Under the 1947 Rio treaty, the American Foreign Ministers may meet and take action if two-thirds of the members of the Organization of American States decide that the political independence of an American state is affected by "an aggression...
...blue upholstery) he gets little personal pleasure from it. He is a warm, sympathetic and basically modest man. He fervently admires talent in others. But fellow toilers who do not share his perfectionism and his passion for work fill him with injured bewilderment and anger; he reacts to any threat against complete artistic control of his work with the ferocity of a Boer trekker defending his oxen against the howling black...
Last week angry Archbishop Jachym returned to battle with a public petition and a threat. Titled "On Behalf of Those Suffering Pangs of Conscience," the petition asked: "Shall the widow because she draws a pension of several hundrad schillings ... be obliged to forgo the primitive right of marrying again?" If the state refuses to act, wrote the Archbishop, "the bishops [will be] obliged to ... order the proper priest to perform the marriage in open contravention...
This latest threat is the climax of a policy instituted Feb. 23 under Captain Patrick J. McCarthy, head of the traffic bureau...
Every year Administration officials breathe more easily when the Smoker staggers to a halt. Although they are never satisfied with the Smoker, they feel it is worth the risk despite the yearly threat of injury and serious property destruction. It seems, they have said, a good psychological defense against the exuberance that freshmen feel when they find that three C's and a D are not so hard to get after all-that same exuberance which leads to riots and bomb throwing in the Yard. It was an attempt to substitute foam flecked Brotherhood and Good Fellowship for town-gown...