Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only four months ago, but they are coming back to a different world. Inflation has changed to recession; the unassailable Eisenhower is under heavy assault; big talk of economy has changed to big talk of defense spending; and the air of smug superiority has yielded to the very real threat of Russian technological leadership. Before it met, the new session had a nickname: "The Sputnik Congress." And it had a too obvious political motivation: laying out party lines for the congressional elections next November...
...Year story contained this passage: "What the world would best remember in 1945 was the deadly mushroom clouds over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Here were the force, the threat, the promise of the future. In their giant shadows, 45,000 ft. tall, all men were pygmies." The cover showed a small face of Harry Truman, a man caught and dwarfed by the might of the new Atomic...
...arable, the island not only feeds 9,000,000 civilians and 500,000 soldiers, but exports food as well. The U.S., which has come through with $2 billion in aid since 1951, provides the military hardware and meets half the military payroll. The press is effectively controlled, and any threat of internal subversion by the Chinese Communists is kept well in hand by the zealous (some say too zealous) security police called the Peace Preservation Corps. Stern and 70, Chiang Kai-shek rules party, army and people as firmly as ever...
South Viet Nam. Dynamic President Diem has created a stable regime, emerged as one of the East's strongest statesmen. Though Saigon's recent bombings show that Communists can still break the peace, Diem has the threat to internal security under control. With an annual per capita income of $144, Viet Nam trails only Japan, Malaya and the Philippines in the area. Diem has built 1,000 miles of roads, reclaimed thousands of acres of rice land, and opened two universities and a technical school this year. U.S. aid ($250 million this year) keeps his army...
...fire-and-brimstone Preacher Cotton Mather, Spiritual Milk was designed to edify and scare the daylights out of colonial moppets, e.g.: "Q. What is your corrupt nature? Answ. My corrupt nature is empty of Grace, bent unto sin, and onely unto sin, and that continually." It ended with the threat and promise that "the Righteous shall go into life eternall, and the wicked shall be cast into everlasting fire with the Devil and his Angels...