Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...industry negotiators manage to reach an agreement. During the week, both Charlie Wilson and Harry Truman helped to upset the labor-management negotiations just when-they began to show promise. Wilson, returning from Key West, infuriated Phil Murray by blurting that the proposed WSB package was "a serious threat in our year-old effort to stabilize the economy." Then Wilson telephoned the steelmakers to promise them that the President had agreed to a raise in steel prices if the wage settlement required...
...Atkinson's immediate reelection, the other on his dismissal. Actually, the anti-Atkinson group is merely trying to threaten the city manager as a means of forcing him to submit to the Council's authority. But because the Council cannot agree on a candidate to replace Atkinson, the threat is a watery one indeed. So Atkinson continues on his way with little fear of reprisal from Cambridge's legislature...
...Bacon is a great threat to upset Ufford," Jack Barnaby, varsity squash coach said last night, "and this match pits the power game of Bacon against the finesse game of Ufford--two very different styles of play." In the intercollegiates held in Cambridge two weeks ago, Bacon lost to Dick Squires by one point, and Squires went on to the finals with Ufford. Barnaby feels that had Bacon won that point, it would have made an all-Harvard final match...
Gist of the cannonade, in the words of Averell Harriman: "Any decision to cut [mutual security] is a decision to reduce the strength which is being built in the free world for our common defense against the threat of the Kremlin. A substantial cut would gravely impair our security...
...attacked the "stool pigeon" clause in the oath required of all Navy men, including Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps members. The clause, compelling Navy men to name all persons connected with groups listed as subversive by the Justice Department, was called a "menace to American freedom and a special threat to academic freedom...