Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Certainly Communist China had not been able to make good on the threat that it hurled at the Quemoy garrison on Aug. 27: "Your water routes to Formosa have been blockaded by us, and you have not the slightest hope of holding the island, being reinforced, or being able to withdraw." If the Reds had not abandoned hope of starving Quemoy out. they presumably would not have given the Nationalists an opportunity to cram supplies into the island unopposed. (By week's end Nationalist convoys had landed an estimated 28.000 tons of supplies on Quemoy-enough to meet minimum...
...Gymnast's chief offensive threat is a Ceylonese inside left, Captain Sam Kasinathan. A Springfield source commented yesterday while "Kasinathan has only scored once this year, he has the best footwork and passing of any player we've seen this season...
Repairing Slippage. Despite the headline impact of the new emphasis, U.S. policy in the formal sense remained unchanged. The U.S. would continue to resist Communist expansion by force or threat of force at Quemoy. The U.S. would continue to seek to negotiate a dependable cease-fire with the Red Chinese at Warsaw. Given that, the U.S. might seek to persuade Chiang to withdraw sizable Nationalist contingents from Quemoy-but leaving Quemoy in Nationalist hands-as a means of removing what the President calls "a thorn in the side of peace...
...allies, other than Nationalist China, had no commitment to help the U.S. in the Formosa area, but "I believe that most of them would be appalled if the U.S. were spinelessly to retreat before the threat of Sino-Soviet armed aggression...
...Myles Mace carries out a threat he made recently, a how-to-succeed-in-business book may appear within the next few years under the title The Gospel According to St. Mace. And believers of the new Word, whether they attend lunch hour worship at the church on the corner of Broadway and Wall Street, or a baccalaureate service at a university chapel, need have only the grace of competency...