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Word: threatfully (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opposition," charged Stevenson, ". . . is laying down a barrage of ugly, twisted, demagogic distortion." Immediate cause of the Illinois governor's wrath was Ike's accusation that the Administration had "bungled" the U.S. into the Korean war. If the Administration had underestimated the Soviet threat, declared Stevenson, so had Ike. "In November 1945 [Eisenhower] even told the House Military Affairs Committee: 'Nothing guides Russian policy so much as a desire for friendship with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: Foreign Policy: Adlai | 10/6/1952 | See Source »

...thousand apartments and 557 landlords, has valiantly tried to obtain decent housing near the University for all of them. This fall, the Office sent each landlady a note reminding them that discriminators were not welcome on the housing lists, but colored students kept returning empty-handed. Acting on its threat the Office has erased landladies who admit purposely drawing a color line from its listings. But such blunt cases are rare. For every bare-faced discriminator, there are ten who protest that "they wouldn't mind a Negro, but their tenants would...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Room: I | 10/4/1952 | See Source »

Besides Mitchell Price, acknowledged to be possibly the best passer in the East, the only other Lion offensive threat to draw newspaper notice was halfback Bob Mercier. Because they operate from different styles of offense, it is difficult to make exact comparisons, but Dick Clasby and John Culver may be said to balance off this pair. And that's not counting reserve fullback Jerry Blitz, who showed extremely well against Springfield, and wingback John Ederer, who had not yet hit his stride last Saturday...

Author: By Richard B. Kline, | Title: Egg in Your Beer | 10/2/1952 | See Source »

Explaining his move, Cherington emphasized what he called the great threat the increasingly influential Republican reactionaries pose to our "quasi-democratic" society...

Author: By William M. Beecher, | Title: Cherington Switches Vote From Eisenhower to Adlai | 10/1/1952 | See Source »

...give none of them the ready-made solutions for which they yearn. David is trying to live his own life and to root himself in "a country-bred wisdom" as protection against the "artificial stimulation" of the city. To Carlotta, the aging star of bedroom farces, this seems a threat to her very existence, and she soon resents him violently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Contemporary Ulysses | 9/29/1952 | See Source »

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