Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Congress. "The improvement in business activity which began in the second quarter of last year will be extended in the months ahead." Happily ticking off the indicators of a recession-recovered economy, he felt free to concentrate on the foe-inflation-which he has consistently named as the chief threat to long-term U.S. economic health...
...Marine Corps and Coast Guard do not need draftees to maintain their force levels, the Army does: at a current draft rate of 9,000 men a month, 28% of the Army's 804,000-man enlisted personnel is drafted. More important, as McElroy pointed out, the omnipresent threat of selective service "stimulates" young men to volunteer for the service of their own choice. Says a Massachusetts draft-board official: "If the draft went off, all the recruiting services would be hard...
...rich sheiks of Kuwait and the curvaceous cuties of the Cairo Casbah, not to mention the nubile Nubians of the nether Nile, the nemesis of Nasser nears the nadir of its nebulous naughtiness, forcing the great powers to consider, with great searching of souls and scratching of navels, the threat, the portentous horror, indeed, the phantasmagorical folly of appeasement, of a Munich, if you please, in the face of great decisions which may determine the future of the entire Arabian peninsula, perhaps of the whole Western World, centering in arid Iraq, cradle of civilization, womb of nationalism, cocoon of Communism...
Bombs & Clips. Mikoyan never seemed to mind the necessity for extra security precautions, such as checking food with Geiger counters (to guard against attempts to poison him with radioactive substances) or the telephone bomb threat that delayed his airplane out of Chicago. In fact, he appeared even philosophical as, from place to place, he was dogged by bitter Hungarian and Ukrainian pickets, who threw stones, snowballs and eggs (no direct hits) in disregard of President Eisenhower's call for a show of courtesy. At first, he thought that "it is like a comedy," but by the time he landed...
...seems to be privately alert to entrapment by Communists, there are some who suspect his motives. Israeli intelligence insists that Communist activities, at least in Egypt and Syria, are not nearly so serious as they have been made to seem, that in fact Nasser is using the Communist threat as 1) an excuse to put down honest Syrian disillusionment at the way the United Arab Republic is working out, and 2) a bogy to frighten Westerners so they will make...