Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Time Threat. Arrested in his factory office, White unhesitatingly admitted that he had killed Dugan. Dazed from strain and sleeplessness, White told an incoherent story. When he noticed that Dugan was following him, he said, he stopped his car and got out. Dugan parked, came toward him with his hand in his trench-coat pocket. Thinking that Dugan had a pistol, Malcolm White went "berserk," ag he told it, drew the pistol for which he had got a permit a month before, and started shooting...
Despite his protestations of innocence, a gang of Frondizi supporters invaded Gomez' office next day. wrecked furniture, destroyed papers and ordered Gomez to resign. At week's end he put his resignation in Frondizi's hands, and the national oil union decided to postpone its strike threat. Frondizi was still on top. He had lost his dubious Peronista support, and the Mendoza oilworkers were still on strike, but he had gained the prestige of demonstrated firmness...
Brave New World Revisited, by Aldous Huxley. One of the 20th century's brightest gloomologers decides that fact has already caught up with his 1932 horror fiction, what with subliminal commercials, wholesale tranquilization, and the threat of much too well-bred man crowding himself off his own planet...
...many Yale plays began with the quarterback bumping into the intended ball-carrier, or else being pulled down because he moved too slowly, by hard-charging Crimson forwards. In addition, Eli passing was never a threat; though this must be blamed less on the quarterbacks and more on their blockers, who simply could not withstand the determined pass-rush of the Harvards...
...Yardlings money ballplayer is a 5 ft. 10 in halfback from Oregon named John Damis, who either slants through the line or runs around it. In addition to running Damis is also a passing or kicking threat...