Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arab Republic (Egypt-Syria). Britain, whose North Sea fishing trawlers are a major industry, decided to abandon the three-mile limit in favor of a maximum of six, hoping thereby to avoid the threat of twelve, which would seriously jeopardize its fishing close to the coasts of Iceland, Norway and Greenland. Canada proposed a six-mile limit for national sovereignty, plus another six miles of exclusive fishing (a notion that horrified Britain). The Soviet Union, which has little at stake for itself in the issue, made propaganda hay by championing the smaller nations' twelve-mile proposals...
...runners on the bases and a righthanded batter steps up," wrote Red Smith in his syndicated sports column, "a sense of impending doom settles upon the multitude. Fear grips the pitcher. Panic stalks the stands. Maybe the batter will pop the ball harmlessly into the stratosmog, but the threat of a shattering home run is always imminent...
Nobody is in a better position to testify on the difficulties of competing with the New York Times (see above) than Ogden Rogers Reid, 32, who took over the ailing, family-owned New York Herald Tribune in 1955 with the triple-threat title of publisher-president-editor. "Brownie" Reid set out to counter the Times's thoroughness with livelier stories, editorial fun and promotion games. But heading out in the new direction, the Modern Republican Trib slumped badly, last September went to its good friend, Modern Republican John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, 53, currently Ambassador to the Court...
...Threat to U.S. Exports
Russian economic offers often prove less attractive than they first seem; most countries have to accept barter instead of hard cash, often find Russian goods shoddy, Soviet maintenance poor. But so long as the threat of a congressional cutback in U.S. aid and trade programs and increasing pressure for more U.S. tariffs on basic commodities exist, the attractions of the Soviet lure are apt to become even stronger. U.S. business will not only lose some of its present markets, but, far more important, will be kept out of the markets of the future...