Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brandished Threat. But the formidable trio of Knowland, Dirksen and Bridges wanted none of it. Facing defeat on the floor, the trio outflanked Kennedy & Co. by marching to the White House. If the Administration persisted in endorsing the Kennedy amendment, they warned, they would retaliate by slashing foreign aid funds. Retreating halfway, the President let word get out that he liked the principle of the Kennedy amendment, but was leaving it up to the Senate to decide whether to tack it on to the foreign aid bill or defer it for later action. Was he sure that this was where...
Unappeased. Knowland, Bridges and Dirksen charged down on the President again last week, brandished their threat and demanded full retreat. Ike gave way, authorized Knowland to announce that the Administration still approved the amendment's principle but was opposed to tacking it on to the aid bill. When Jack Kennedy heard the news, he paled with anger, but even angrier were the Eisenhower Republicans who had loyally backed the amendment. Snapped Vermont Republican George Aiken: "We people who stick our necks out for the Administration can't count...
...average student Scarsdale presents an already fiercely competitive system. From the ninth grade on, pupils are constantly spurred by reminders of the admission hurdles which lie ahead. Teachers not infrequently employ the threat to mark infractions on a student's "college record" as a disciplinary persuader. Gradually through a student's four years the pressure of getting into a choice school builds up until it reaches a peak of tension in the winter and spring of his senior year. There seems to be, in general, too much of a stress laid on achieving college admission...
...fact is that the only reason for this concern with improving American education has come out of a threat to our survival. Without this, the problem of increased intellectual activity for its own sake would not be a very pressing problem, nor would anything else, for that matter...
While the union went on working without a contract, thus losing for good the "no-contract, no-work" threat that it has used against the auto companies before, G.M. stepped up the pressure. It stopped collecting union dues by payroll checkoff, and told union shop stewards that they can spend only half their working hours on union business. Ford and Chrysler, whose contracts expired three days after G.M.'s, followed the G.M. formula for operating in the no-contract period. If there are no contracts by the end of June, automakers may shut down. With a backlog...