Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...without hesitation and without excuse that this is a turning point in history," Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons. "Never has the-threat of Soviet Communism been so great, or the need for countries to organize-themselves against...
...their ranks. "This boy," said a representative of powerful Tyneside Removals Ltd., "is the type that might well work right around the clock. In five years he might replace us in the town." Warned a lawyer for Pickford's Ltd.: "While I hardly think he is a threat to Pickford's, one must remember that my firm was also started by an enterprising young man with a horse and cart." With the big truckers' legal eyes boring in upon him, Licensing Authority John Hanlon found an easy way out of the impasse. Young Derek Wiscombe had worked...
...succeeded in establishing the principle that the commissars must not interfere in purely military decisions. The suggestion that Zhukov was trying to establish personal dominance of the Soviet army was likely to find ready acceptance with Communist Party bureaucrats, ever fearful of a military coup. Khrushchev, having used the threat of Zhukov's military power to destroy his civilian rivals, was now appealing to the civilian majority of the Central Committee to help him destroy Zhukov...
...maneuvers were forgotten. To save what face they could, the Syrians moved Fortification Week ceremonies ahead, and President Shukri el Kuwatly dutifully dug his spade into Syrian soil, crying defiance to the "invader" even as in the U.N. his Foreign Minister Salah el Bitar conceded that the much-advertised threat of Turkish attack was not worth debating, and dropped Syria's demand for investigation...
...agreed with him that "the time had arrived when we had to say something." Other Southern church groups have spoken out against segregation more or less directly, but the Georgia statement is far the firmest and the most widely based. Specifically, the Georgia ministers flatly condemned the oft-repeated threat by Governor Marvin Griffin et al. to abolish the public school system in order to circumvent the Supreme Court's anti-segregation decision...