Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some common sense and not just get a Sputnik attitude about everything." All last week the President kept a tight grip on the rule of reasonableness, surprised staff and Congress alike by using it to administer a sharp rap across the knuckles here, a threat there, to keep politically fired recession fears from getting out of bounds...
...seven months since federal troops went into Little Rock to enforce the law that Governor Orval Faubus had defied, there has been grim silence between opposing forces in the Central High School battle. The moderates lost ground because the Justice Department backed down from its threat to prosecute the rioters. The segregationists settled down to snipe at harassed school officials who tried to abide by the federal court's order to admit nine Negroes to Central High, and keep classes going. And while, on the strength of the hate and confusion he had sown, Governor Orval Faubus rode nearer...
...cities, according to the FBI tally for 1956, Negroes, making up 10% of the U.S. population, accounted for about 30% of all arrests, and 60% of the arrests for crimes involving violence or threat of bodily harm-murder, non-negligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault. In one city after another, the figures-where they are not hidden or suppressed by politicians-reveal a shocking pattern. Items...
...writer: Dwight Eisenhower. Its reported contents: an appeal to Gaillard to give the good-offices mission another chance-a warning that the U.S. does not want to be forced to choose between France and Tunisia. Diplomatically as it was phrased. President Eisenhower's letter was a clear threat that, if France took its quarrel with Bourguiba to the U.N., the U.S. would do nothing to avert the one thing the French dread-a full-dress Security Council debate on the Algerian...
Tape & Technicians. The strikers professed to be uninterested in CBS's offer of a $185.50 weekly minimum wage unless it was accompanied by a tighter job-security clause in their new contract. But behind the talk of security was a looming new threat to their jobs: video tape, the electronic wonder that can record both TV's sounds and images on a magnetized plastic strip. Unlike film, such tape needs no processing, can reproduce what it has heard and seen-a second or a century later (TIME, Feb. 4, 1957). The reproduced image on the TV screen...