Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throughout the country. One local working on a steel plant at Scunthorpe rebelled. Foulkes hustled right up there "just to have a fatherly chat." Grumbled one of the workers: "We talked for half an hour about democracy. Then Frank ignores it all and orders us out." They went-under threat from Frank to lift their union cards. In the tightly organized industry, that meant probable loss of their jobs...
Even more far-reaching is a threat to the companies that has been boiling up for the past few months: a program Trujillo calls land reform. Having made the gesture of turning over 59 parcels of his own sugar holdings to loyal Trujillistas, the Benefactor now wants the U.S. companies to give up part of their land to local planters, for compensation to be determined later...
Clasby, a triple threat tailback, said that he had received an offer to play with a Canadian Football League team, but he refused to disclose which one had made the offer. He also reported receiving questionnaires to fill out for every team in the NFL. However, he admitted that an American team would "be second to get my services...
Such levers need not be used: the mere threat of intervention by men who are ill-trained for administrative matters, who are organized for debate, not action, who lack staffs adequate even for their own tasks, and who are all too often moved by politics pure and simple, would be enough. It would be enough to demolish what remains of morale after years of abuse and charges of communism and homosexuality. It would be enough to destroy the already indifferent efficiency of an overgrown government. No doubt Congress is the best agency for charting courses, but it is worse than...
...fear, in the eyes of U.S. officialdom. The British Treasury estimates that a drop of only 5% in U.S. national income would mean a 25% drop in sterling sales to the dollar market. This would put the whole Commonwealth in the red. Convinced that he is faced with that threat, Rab Butler made it his immediate concern to brace the Commonwealth for trouble. Explained a British Treasury man: "The dollar market is the father, and when father turns, we turn, but with a bigger bump on the edges of the bed, where we are, than in the middle, where...