Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chinese say: "The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names." Inevitably, under pressure of Soviet threat and promise, Europeans tend to call appeasement "neutralism." Even among the U.S. people and their leaders, there are those who snap at Soviet bait or become confused about Soviet intentions...
...game dope tabbed 6-8 center Paul Wisdom as Dartmouth's chief threat, so Crimson coach Norm Shepard covered him with Dick Manning, probably the varsity's top defensive "big" man. But the visitors employed a double-pivot--with Fairley as Wisdom's partner...
...Missouri's Democratic Senator Thomas C. Hennings Jr., spokesman for an anti-Bricker group which never had an idea of compromise, recognized the George substitute as the chief threat. He pointed to George's key provision, which would make international executive agreements effective as U.S. internal lawonly when approved by both branches of Congress. If this right were given to the House, said Hennings, the traditional power of the South to block a two-thirds Senate vote would be diluted. Hennings was fully aware of George's main source of support: the Senate's Southern bloc...
...thus easing some of the pressure on exporters. To this end, Germany is already working on a plan to lift some import restrictions and cut taxes in order to raise purchasing power. In such ways it can insure its own future as a working capitalist democracy and reduce the threat of a trade war that might split the West in a time of crisis...
Says Dawson: "The [medieval world] was always at grips with the problem of barbarism. It had to face the external threat of alien and hostile cultures, while at the same time it was in conflict with barbaric elements within its own social environment which it had to control and transform. And in this work it could not rely on the existence of common standards of civilization or common moral values. It had to create its own moral order before it could achieve an ordered form of civilized existence...