Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite its benevolent and highly public-spirited intentions, the Massachusetts Advisory Committee is an especially good example of a potentially serious threat to the free dissemination of artistic works. When the Committee declares a book "unfit" for juvenile consumption and notifies booksellers of this fact, it in effect bans the book from any public sale. If a dealer is warned of the obscenity of a specific publication, he will not in most cases make a distinction between an adult and a youth: he will simply lift the book and return it to the distributor, taking no chances...
...general the debates are held on Sunday, but the recent installation of television sets in the prison's dormitories has created an attendance problem since the best TV programs are usually on Sunday nights. Bill has decided to counteract the TV threat with an hour-long vaudeville show before each debate. Even without the vaudeville the debates still usually draw a good 200 to 400 out of the prison's population...
McCurdy feels that his biggest replacement problems are in the high jump and shot put. Dick Barwise, Harvard high jump record holder and a consistent 6 foot 2 inch jumper, was the team's only threat. Now Bob Rittenburg. Ty Smith, and Don Whitehead are left, but none have broken six feet yet this year...
Before he ended his term as U. S. High Commissioner for Germany, John J. McCloy said, "The danger from the extreme right is not of a critical nature and ... does not constitute an immediate threat to the Federal Republic, but there is a potential danger whose nature and importance warrant continued vigilance by all who value democratic principles...
...grew in strength, promising German supremacy and power. Shortly before the May, 1951 elections, they had become such a threat that Adenauer's government began to crack down. Bonn demanded the dissolution of the SPR Reichfront, a youth organization dissimilar to Hitler's youth groups and SS only in that it did not use the stiff arm salute--in public...