Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tests petition signed by 9,235 U.S. and foreign scientists, including three dozen Nobel laureates. Pauling was balanced off against Atomic Energy Commissioner Willard Libby, a distinguished nuclear chemist himself, who declared that "hazards from fallout are limited" and that nuclear tests are needed to lessen the "awful threat" of nuclear war. But the telecast's general tone was one of doom. Intoned Murrow: "There is danger in the continued testing of nuclear weapons. Scientists disagree only as to the degree and depth of the danger...
...Gaillard got his vote of confidence (282 to 196), but with it came a blunt threat from right-wing ex-Premier Andre Marie: "We give you our confidence, but if the government makes any unacceptable concessions to Tunisia through the Good Offices mission, our confidence would be withdrawn...
...Face-Saver. Bourguiba's ultimatum, with its implicit threat that Tunisia would turn against the West unless he got his way, was an overt attempt at blackmail. And international blackmail is something which neither the U.S. nor Britain can afford to pay even once. Gloomily, many a chancellery and much of the world's press concluded that the three-weeks-old Anglo-American effort to mediate the quarrel between France and Tunisia was headed for failure...
...force that impelled Batista to drop the mantle of conciliation and move to open dictatorship was a sudden, unexpected threat from Cuba's judiciary. While proclaiming "we love democracy," the President had long winked at the activities of a small group of police and military men whose rough stuff and tortures helped to cow the discontented. Three weeks ago, during the "free" period, eleven Havana judges hit at the police for refusing to honor writs of habeas corpus, declaring they had "never seen the administration of Cuban justice so mocked and reviled." A fortnight ago, the judicial attack sharpened...
...biggest threat to Protestantism today is Fundamentalism and popular evangelism, according to Charles Clayton Morrison, retired editor of the Christian Century. "What a travesty of the Christian faith this idolatry of a book called the Bible has been," he writes in the current Century, "[as well as] the false representation of what 'the Bible says.' How can one understand what the Bible says without knowledge of what the Bible...