Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nigerians swam out to the sambuk, which sailed away-for help, the pilgrims thought. But no help came. The pilgrims did not know it, but the four rescued men, on reaching Port Sudan, had been hidden in the Fellata and told not to talk under threat of death. Another pilgrim fell into the sea and the sharks took him quickly. All the pilgrims were now drinking sea water, praying, and talking hysterically in the night...
...instead of the present department rating, and to make that grade part of the permanent record. Many especially non-honors men--feel that, time-wise, they cannot afford to prepare for tutorial because it is unimportant to their academic standing. A permanent grade would correct that attitude. And the threat of a poor grade would bring back those who constantly cut without fear of reprisal...
...would not fire a dogmatic Marxist or Freudian, both of whom blind themselves to all but a single cause; or a Catholic, whose ideas on certain subjects must change at the order of the Pope. For these beliefs are not presently dangerous to the government. But if only the threat's the thing, it is dangerously illogical to fire a CP member who has never taught threatening ideas. Moreover, any avowed Communist will be closely enough watched by both his students and the FBI that his first violation of the Smith Act will be noticed...
...strategists would want to use the money to buy bombers rather than for a more elaborate air-warning and air-defense system. No matter how much money is spent, a complete defense of the U.S. against atomic attack cannot be constructed, and the best way to deal with the threat, according to most military men, is to be ready to hurt the enemy more than he can hurt the U.S. "A Maginot Line on the ground is bad enough," said one Air Force officer last week. "There isn't any line you can hold...
...Threat to Myrna Loy. Her first films were an undistinguished lot. Hollywood's top leading ladies in the 1930s were sexy types. Ros was valuable as one of the few actresses around with excellent taste in clothes and the figure (stately, but not sexy) to wear them. Usually, she played the girl who didn't get the man ("I was Myrna Loy's threat...