Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under Alabama law, robbery (which, by definition, requires violence or a threat of violence) can be a capital offense. In practice, the death penalty applies only to Negroes. Since 1927, when Alabama started using the electric chair, four prisoners have been executed for robbery. All were Negroes. For various crimes since 1927, Alabama has electrocuted a total of 22 whites, 124 Negroes...
Facts in the Field. To cope with the awesome threat of the submarine revolution, the Navy chose one of its most versatile hands, long noted as one of the Navy's most skilled and thoughtful aircraft pilots, a tactical innovator, an experienced operator both on a ship's bridge and in the Big-Think climate of the Pentagon...
...Soviet boats are constantly probing U.S. submarine defenses, testing the detection and tracking proficiency of U.S. goblin hunters. "The Russians," says Vice Chief of Naval Operations James Russell, "are not building submarines in order to drink toasts at launching ceremonies." Russia's Nikita Khrushchev himself stated the submarine threat as baldly as possible: "Our submarines can block American ports and shoot into the American interior, while our rockets can reach any target. America's vital centers are just as vulnerable as NATO bases...
...indeed disturbed by the evidence of Chinese Communist buildup," said he. "I think it would be highly hazardous for anyone to assume that if the Chinese Communists were to attack and seek to conquer these islands, that that could be a limited operation. It would, I fear, constitute a threat to the peace of the area...
There was also the threat of an auto strike. The labor leaders were glumly aware that the U.S. public, annoyed by rising prices, would take a dark view of a pacemaking U.A.W. strike for new wage boosts. The Executive Council went ahead anyhow, named a seven-man strike committee to "give practical support, organizationally and financially," if Walter Reuther's Auto Workers go on strike...