Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Never have I seen anything so gruesome. If this is a manifestation of that "inevitable force"-Arab nationalism-then Arab nationalism poses as great a threat to the civilized world as Communism, since both appear to revel in savagery and slaughter...
...ousted by Nasserites? In such a case Israel, its existence threatened as never before, might even take military action. British troops were thus holding the peace while accused of spreading war. Rather than accept a third Arab-Israeli war with its incalculable risks to the great powers (and its threat to his Nasserite friends), Khrushchev might prove willing to accept some kind of U.N. guarantee, not of Hussein's regime, but of Jordan's continued independence...
...living with senseless death and unresolved bickering for three months, few in Beirut believed that the election of President Camille Chamoun's successor would be held on schedule last week. But the U.S. troop landings had shocked all Lebanese into a new sense of urgency. Under the implied threat that troops might otherwise stay indefinitely, U.S. five-star Ambassador Robert Murphy, Ike's special envoy, performed his good offices among the warring factions with characteristically persuasive art (and then tactfully left town on polling day). All knew, and had long known, that there was only one possible figure...
...reflected the common recognition of the need for a strong cure, as well as the fact that half of France was on holiday. But overriding all else was the concern expressed even by Historian Siegfried that the alternative to De Gaulle might be a "civil war between a seditious threat and a Communist threat of a popular front...
While the common market's threat to U.S. business is plain, so are its enormous advantages. Says Dr. Lajos Schmidt, an international attorney who has helped many firms to go abroad: "The common market represents the first time that American industry can compete on an American basis in Europe." It will have close to 170 million people with high living standards-almost as large as the U.S. market. Many U.S. firms that could not afford to set up plants for any one of the six nations alone can well afford to do it for the whole market, have discovered...