Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...policy to check the Communist use of threat of force by having retaliatory power and the will to use it, so that the Communist use of force would obviously be unprofitable to them. I emphasize both the power and the will, for one without the other is useless. Also, that will must be sufficiently manifest that potential aggressors will calculate that they could not aggress without disaster to themselves...
...Civil War, is no repository of genteel Southern tradition and or moderation, has been keyed to violence, whether labor troubles in the 1930s or desegregation in the 1950s. And Birmingham's white country people, teeming in from piney woods to steel mills, view desegregation less as an abstract threat to be fended off by lawyers than as a specific, bread-and-butter threat to jobs, promotions, family security. Says Bull Connor: "If the North keeps trying to cram this thing down our throats, there's going to be bloodshed...
...there was less agreement on how the threat should be countered. Adenauer wants the West to give a flat "No" to Khrushchev. He would sidetrack other questions on Germany until the Allies can negotiate out of the shadow of the Berlin ultimatum...
Picket lines of strikers posed a threat to continued operation of all nine of the city's big dailies. They employ more than 20,000 persons and have a combined payroll of over two million dollars a week...
Argentina and Venezuela, he noted, are each attempting to restore constitutional government after a long period of dictatorship. But Argentine President Frondizi has had to declare a state of siege to counter the threat of an oil strike led by the Communists and Peronistas, while the future of Venezuelan democracy may depend on the military's willingness to step down in favor of a man whom they had previously deposed and persecuted...