Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While most Southern politicians talk about states' rights and the threat of Communism to mask with more high-toned prejudices their own ambitious use of popular bigotry, some Southerners do not consider these issues entirely rhetorical. They fear big government and the status revolution which accompanies its growth. They sense a creeping commonality which threatens customary moral standards and seems to derogate the supreme values of privacy and personal autonomy...
...movie of this type, it is a rare director who can resist the temptation to play up the ominous threat of the Nazis. Peter Glenville manages to stay away from this chestnut until the end, when it is consequently more effective. Although his direction is not brilliant, it is consistent, and while the camera work generally dull, there are a few good moments...
...school closings turned out to be more than a defiance of integration, more than a legal stratagem. They turned out, in action, to be the Governor of a state seizing autocratic, political control of highly prized, independent local school systems. They turned out to be a real and forbidding threat to the competent education of youngsters in a sharply competitive national society. In short, they turned out to be the destruction of political and social monuments just as precious as the preservation of segregation...
Boulris is one of the shiftiest and most skilful runners in the Ivy League and Halaby has a fine fullback charge, but neither possesses the speed to make the varsity a real breakaway threat. Quite possibly this crucial commodity could be supplied by sophomore halfback Larry Repsher, who made some exciting long gains and may give Don Gerety strong competition for the starting right half-back spot...
Admiral Wright estimated Russia's military strength at 2.5 million men, 18,000 planes and 2,700 ships, with another 3,300 planes as flying escorts. But perhaps the greatest threat, he said, was the Reds' fleet of 450 submarines...