Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory in World War II," Ike charged, "this Administration has bungled us perilously close to World War III . . . Why are we at war in Korea? . . . We are in that war because of failure to observe some of the principles for preventing war . . . because this Administration grossly underestimated the actual threat ... [and] allowed America, in a time when strength was needed, to become weak . . . We are in that war because, having helped set up the Korean republic, and, knowing that strength was being massed against that republic north of its borders, there was a failure to build up adequate strength...
Wages. The Bevanly host and its Communist outriders condemned the Tory government's efforts to cut spending and hold the line on wages, as a threat to Socialism. But dapper Lincoln Evans, leader of iron and steelworkers, while promising that moderate wage claims will get T.U.C. backing, spoke unpalatable truths: "The world doesn't . . . owe us a living. If we price ourselves out of world markets, we will automatically produce unemployment...
...Spanish names had confused the Committee into perpetrating a great injustice, moved a revote. Brown, starting like a warhouse to the sound of trumpets, bellowed a point of order, and the wrangle began anew. Heselton took the podium and threatened to include Puerto Rico in the minority report, a threat which due to lack of time and the great bitterness on the Convention floor never materialized. This argument merged with another--something to do with motorcycle escort for Committee members to Convention Hall--and the Chair adjourned the session amid general confusion...
...took off for Paris and Geneva and in a few weeks-by her account-she sold 2,500,000 tons of oil at bargain prices. But: no tankers to deliver the goods. Shipowners were chary of the stern British threat to sue any owner who loaded Iranian oil. Sedika moved on to Rome, set up two corporations, and started looking for men with tankers. At Rome's swank Excelsior Hotel, Mme. Garagozlou explained: "I am the-how do you call it-front man. I make the contacts...
...inundated again & again until the Kansas and its tributaries were controlled, Congress appropriated $5,000,000 to start Tuttle Creek Dams. Embattled Blue Valley residents still hope to block the project's completion, and their warning that "if Tuttle Creek is built, there is a shadow and threat over every fertile valley in the Missouri Basin" has not gone unnoticed in farmhouses that have been marked for condemnation in other river valleys if the "big dam" principle wins...