Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko added the Kremlin's characteristic rocket-rattling buildup for such a diplomatic mission. Said Gromyko: West Berlin is a threat to the peace, and if the West should try to force its way through a Berlin blockade, "the flames of war would inevitably spread to the American continent, for today's military techniques have virtually eliminated the difference between distant theaters of war and those close at hand...
Into the Camp. In the face of the new threat by the rebels, Batista's regime showed few signs of cracking. In Havana 30 new British medium tanks and cases of Italian machine guns were unloaded and hustled off to Camp Columbia. From time to time there were tales of dissatisfaction and defection among both high-and low-ranking Cuban army officers. One young air force pilot, Jose Crespo, flew his B-26 to exile in Miami last week, saying that he could not obey orders to "bomb cities and kill innocent women and children." But there were other...
...long last, Nasser-the man who invited the Communists into the Middle East in the first place-seemed to have become disturbed by the Communist threat to his ambitions. He is still pathologically hostile to the West, and finds it hard to turn around because his pride is involved. But Nasser supporters now sidle up to American journalists to identify government ministers in Iraq as "Communists." Western specialists regard Nasser himself as deeply but, in the long run, not irretrievably committed to the Communists. In the short run, they think his hands are tied. A Russian mission in Cairo...
Churning out a verse for friends' Christmas cards. Veteran Poet Robert Frost, 84, turned his still-sure ironic hand to musings on the afterlife, stubbornly concluded his six-stanza effort (Away!) with a sardonically Frosty threat...
...Americans, says May, use perpetual work as a defense against existential anxiety. They cannot face life itself because life as such has lost its meaning. In the U.S. this despondency has been sharply intensified by the realization that a hydrogen-bomb war could wipe out all life; so the threat of it brings every man abruptly face to face with Kierkegaard's nonexistence and Sartre's nothingness...