Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Black Monuments. Without naming either F.D.R. or Harry Truman, Eisenhower by implication accused them of having been too soft toward the Communist threat, both at home & abroad. "We have been too ready for too long to trust a godless dictatorship," he said grimly. "Think of the places that stand as black monuments to this misplaced trust. Our loss of China, a divided and almost naked Germany, the enslaved countries of the Baltic and the Balkans, the long and bloody struggle in Greece." That morning, Ike had said goodbye to his son, Infantry Major John Eisenhower, who is soon to leave...
...Foreign Affairs in 1947, he argued that Russia would not risk war to attain its expansionist objectives, that it could be checked by cool-headed applications of U.S. strength at points around the perimeter, and that ultimately the "seeds of decay" inherent in the Soviet dictatorship would destroy its threat to the democratic world...
Democracy discovered in southern Italy's municipal elections last month that it had two enemies, not one. The neo-Fascist M.S.I. (Movimento Sociale Italiano), which many people treated as a stale joke, emerged as Italy's third party and another threat to Premier Alcide de Gasperi's middle-of-the-road Demo-Christians (TIME, June 9). Last week, De Gasperi used one enemy to help strike down another. He maneuvered the Communists into helping him against the Fascists...
Nevertheless, knowing that Williamson's increase in production to an estimated $24 million a year (12% of all diamond sales) would be a real threat, the cartelists thought it time to get the lone wolf back into the pack. Another rumored reason: the cartel had been pouring capital into gold mines, and might well have been short of cash to support the diamond market in a price break. Sir Ernest Oppenheimer's son Harry flew to Williamson's mine in Tanganyika to lure him back. But Williamson, a diamond-hard bargainer, could not be cracked. So tough...
...been more interested in sawmills than in seedlings." Timber is now being used up 40% faster than new stands are growing; in 1950, the nation used up 8% of its known petroleum reserves, 6% of its lead and iron ore. But absolute shortages, says the commission, "are not the threat in the materials problem . . . The threat lies in insidiously rising costs"-not just dollar costs, but "real" costs in terms of the man-hours and capital needed. For years, "these real costs have been declining and this decline has helped our living standards to rise. But now this decline...