Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second article concerning the cross burning, the editors aim chiefly at the CRIMSON and its "suppression" of the incident. Ten days after the cross burned, "under threat of a mass leaflet, the Harvard CRIMSON printed a letter of condemnation. . . .(and). . .a short, nebulous editorial...
...very clearly last week the dangers of dictatorship in the swaggering advance of Boer nationalism. British South Africans, for so long politically apathetic, had at last bestirred themselves. A moral awakening was taking place in South Africa. There were signs of new alliances to meet the common threat to constitutional liberties. Even many law-abiding Boers were distressed by Premier Malan's extra-legal methods, and some of his own party thought he was going too far. They found ominous the sights & sounds of Boer chauvinism: the way Malanite musclemen break up opposition meetings with eggs, tomatoes and stones...
...government's foothold in this area of private decision is very small of course--an hour a week--and it may be difficult to see in it any serious threat to privacy. But the principle of private choice has been breached, and its use as a defense against further attacks has been diminished seriously. Once you have admitted the government's right to influence your decisions on behalf of organized religion, you have little excuse for not admitting its right to pressure you on other matters, now as private as religion once was. Once schools can legally sprout steeples, then...
Balancing this is his disappointment that a rugby back can't control the play like his football counterpart. "No matter how good a man is," he says, "he's useless without the other backs . . . . It's the threat of the line as a whole that counts...
...This year, as the movie industry celebrates its 50th anniversary . . . proper homage should be paid to the popcorn machine [which] at long last . . . should take its place with the stars of the movie world . . . Popcorn is even combating the threat of television, [which] will never become a serious threat until some enterprising television manufacturer perfects a set that will turn out warm, well-buttered popcorn along with Milton Berle...