Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...anticipation of leaner days under Eisenhower. Another is that, as Inauguration Day grows closer, retiring Defense Secretary Bob Lovett is losing his firm grip. A third and more fundamental reason is that the Navy is certain it has finally found a method (secret) for mastering Russia's submarine threat, now feels free to turn more of its energies to the expansion of naval aviation...
This basic misconception, he said, poses an immediate threat to independent thought in Government service and a latent danger of academic conformity...
Reds in the Future? Can Paz, in a country whose whole history is a record of failure, achieve the miracle of making nationalization work? The first obvious threat to him is an army comeback. Observers on the spot report that the army was all but destroyed by the April revolution and, with the country behind him, Paz is probably safe against any rightist coup for a year or more. But what will happen when the Bolivian tin miners discover that working for the government is sadly like working for Patiño? When the Paz regime was organized, a diplomat...
Hollywood missed a fast little cloak & courier mystery in its own backyard, according to Gossipist Louella Parsons. Had Oona O'Neill Chaplin and husband Charlie Chaplin decided to live in Europe rather than face the Immigration Department's recent threat that Charlie might have trouble getting back into the U.S.? Wrote Louella: "Without a word of publicity and with only three people knowing it," Oona slipped into Los Angeles for four days to lock up the Chaplin home and close out the bank account. "There is a strong rumor that Oona took back to Europe with...
...turned up nose, her carpetbag (which is always empty and yet, somehow, always contains her starched aprons and a camp bed), and the parrot-headed umbrella which is the closest she gets to a magic wand. Children who threaten to disobey Mary Poppins (it is never more than a threat) are reduced by one glance from her ice-blue eyes. In her latest adventure-fantasy, the creator of Mary Poppins, Australian-born Mrs. Pamela L. Travers, offers a cautionary bit of advice: "I warn you, children, take care of your shadows or your shadows won't take care...