Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...extraordinary proposition. Said he: the United Nations Charter and the North Atlantic Treaty bind the U.S. to resist armed attack against any member nation. Hence, "our treaties represent not merely,legal obligations, but show congressional recognition that mutual security for the free world is the best security against the threat of aggression on a global scale." His implication: the President's seizure was justified because the international obligations of the U.S. require a maximum flow of steel for its own defense and for its allies...
...voicing another such threat -or was it just a bluff? General Van Fleet in Seoul saw no signs-yet-that a Communist offensive is imminent...
...France made another pact with Germany (see INTERNATIONAL). This one, at least, lacked the fatuous overconfidence of the last. Victors and vanquished were far more keenly aware of the dangers ahead. The fact of the peace itself and all the terms of the contract were influenced by the threat of Communist aggression. If the West's strength and unity grew, the threat was less; if the West fell apart or stagnated, the threat would grow...
...arrival, Lord Beaverbrook recalled some background on the abdication of the ex-King. When the duke arrived in France in 1936, Beaverbrook recalled, he said, "I always thought I could get away with a morganatic marriage." Obviously, said Beaverbrook, "it had been his intention to barter the threat of abdication against government acknowledgment of the morganatic marriage. The game was played to the end, and the Times and Mr. [Stanley] Baldwin won the last trick...
...Triple Threat. Comedian Danny Kaye and his manager took out a patent on a new blowout paper toy for children. Instead of having merely one rolled-up tongue with a feather on the end, the Kaye version has three-one that shoots out to the right, one to the left, and one straight up in the air, to tickle the nose...