Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before 1936, the South did not have to resort to the threat of revolt. Its interest was protected by the rule requiring two-thirds of the delegates to nominate a candidate for President. When Roosevelt ended the two-thirds rule, he opened the way to the Southern revolt of 1948 and the muffled Southern revolt...
...creative world is suffering from a stifling malady, Elia Kazan told an audience of more than 1,000 people in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon. Delivering the second annual Theodore Spencer Lecture, the noted stage and cinema director declared that over-sensitivity to the Communist threat has created a problem which hampers theatrical practitioners at the very roots of their work...
Kazan explained that he refused to name the others because he felt that it would be unfair to force men to give up their livelihoods for what they had once believed. "Why, at that time," Kazan said, "cries of a Communist threat were called 'Hearst propaganda...
...pictured a friend of that period, a tall, thin, innocent man who played the guitar, and questioned whether such a man could be considered a threat to democracy. "I did not feel that I should cause such a man, a man with a wife and a child, to lose...
...hero of the game was rightfielder Lou Loudani, who made a diving catch of a drive to right field with the bases loaded and no men out in the fifth inning, and turned it into a double play. The last man in the inning popped up to end the threat...