Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stalling Nogoodniks. San Francisco's Federal District Judge Edward Murphy thundered that Barber's treatment of Heikkila smacked of "the Gestapo, the thumbscrew and the rack." Bowing to Murphy's contempt-of-court threat and shocked public opinion, the Justice Department ordered Heikkila brought back to the U.S. By week's end, smiling happily, he was home in San Francisco again, reunited with his U.S.-born wife Phyllis. Scheduled for this week in Judge Murphy's court is a hearing to decide what happens next...
...Communist Poland and Czechoslovakia were allowed to sit in too. The air was now being filled with what Russia would be unwilling to discuss-the status of the satellites, the reunification of Germany. ¶Foreign Minister Gromyko's formal charge that the U.S. Strategic Air Command constitutes "a threat to peace," because it sends bombers armed with hydrogen weapons flying toward Russia whenever an unexplained "blip" appears on U.S. radar screens, proved a dismal flop before the U.N. Security Council. Since the U.S. was easily able to prove the safeguards in its "Fail Safe" technique-which prevents...
...Slovenia. What got the Soviet back up was the draft program proposed by the Yugoslavs, which contained 1) the suggestion that the military blocs of both East and West are responsible for current world tensions, and 2) the hint that the Soviet Union, rather than "international capitalism," represents a threat to the Independence of the smaller Communist nations. In Moscow the Soviet magazine Kommunist angrily demanded extensive changes...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers won an 8.8% pay hike in two step-ups (to a base wage of $190 a week next year), plus an assurance from CBS that video tape-the instant TV recording medium feared by the union as a major job threat-will be handled for the network only by I.B.E.W. men. After twelve days of audio leaks and video freaks, CBS was back to normal...
...provided the rats were kept foodless. Next problem, said Lindenbaum, is to find out whether fasting is necessary for rhodizonate to work, or whether there is a way to get around this. Either way, he was confident that rhodizonate, which human subjects could take by mouth at the first threat of radiostrontium exposure, offers an encouraging lead toward overcoming the most dangerous hazard of fallout radiation...