Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trust that the specter of junior proms, Big Men on Campus fraternities and all the rest that must inevitably follow if the trend is maintained, will be sufficient to raise opposition to the twin pronged threat that confronts the College. Otherwise there may soon be no men left who remember when the words. "All College Weekend" invoked only puzzled amusement and for whom water pistols were simply a Kirkland House Aberration...
...gasoline for Korea.) The Government ordered civilian airlines to cut consumption of aviation gasoline by 30% this week, banned its use for pleasure-flying entirely, and shut off most petroleum exports. Bus service in Chicago was cut by 10%. This week, while Washington still hoped that the threat of even more serious cutbacks could be avoided by a speedy settlement, gasoline stations in the Midwest began posting "Sold Out" signs...
...barred attack on the Air Force and its 6-36 which developed-on all sides-into the blackest chapter of modern U.S. military history. In the brawling, Hoyt Vandenberg kept his voice low. In his testimony to a congressional committee, he doggedly stated the simple facts: "The only military threat to the security of the U.S. ... comes from the Soviet Union," and the only force that could counterattack the threat at its source was the Air Force's Strategic Air Command...
...that you publish a statement that your reporters saw the records in the case and that the records speak for themselves. Otherwise I have no alternative but to conclude that you are acting in contempt of court." Last week, as the editors still refused, Judge Nichols made good his threat. Editors McGill and Williams were released without bond while they appealed to the state supreme court, which will have to determine whether judges' powers give them the right to edit newspapers...
Most mailmen do not rest their pleas merely on the sinister threat of "no sale, no mail." They usually remark that "everyone else in the entry bought a ticket and don't you realize that your small deflated dollar is going to help old retired mailmen who need it much more than you do, I'm sure." If one stands still and says nothing, the mailman will also stand and wait. If one says he has no dollar to spare just now, the mailman will plunk his ticket on the nearest flat surface with the promise to come back...