Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Ike returned to Communism's other face-the external threat. "Now in order to obtain their objectives, Stalin has said there may have to be another international war, unless the free nations become so convinced of the hopelessness of the struggle that they will surrender...
...efforts throughout the world, on outpost positions, I mean positions that are exposed to immediate Communist threat, physical threat, if we will help those people hold out and get ourselves back where we belong as reserves to move in to any threatened danger point if they carry it to that point, carry it to that level, then what we will be doing it will be taking these 22 million South Koreans, pushing programs for getting them ready to hold their own front line...
Economic pinch was the explanation given; yet complacency too was behind the slowdowns. Matt Ridgway tried last week to counter this feeling with a soldier's assessment: "There is no reliable evidence known to me . . . [that] the potential threat of armed aggression . . . has in any way abated." Warned the London Observer: "Everybody is now smugly persuading himself that the danger of war has receded and that it is therefore possible to go to sleep again. There will be a harsh awakening...
...took a hammer to the commission's argument and smashed it to smithereens. Wrote the President, in turning down the commission's recommendation: "The weight of evidence does not support the claim that our domestic watch industry has been seriously injured, or that there is a threat of serious injury . . . [Domestic] production of jewelled watches had nearly doubled in 1951, as compared with the annual average for the period 1936-40." With the U.S. now selling nearly twice as much goods ($216 million worth last year) to Switzerland as Switzerland sells to the U.S. ($131 million), the President...
...remaining against their will. All of them know that the fort's equipment is obsolete. But few of them worry. The invaders, say the skeptics, will come by a different route; probably they will not come at all. Only a handful of dedicated soldiers really believe in the threat of the North and yearn for the day when their fidelity will be put to the test. And even these rare men suspect that the only reason for their faith is that they want to "give life some significance...