Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such an apocalyptic week Communism's new coalition of dazzling technology and cutthroat politics represented an epochal threat to the free world. After 40 years of Bolshevism, the operative words were still Lenin's "kto kovo?", meaning who shall eliminate whom...
...there an international crisis? Stalin was slow to commit Russia to foreign adventures, slower still to back down once he had committed Soviet prestige. Nikita Khrushchev with one brash threat against Turkey had launched a war scare that set the whole world's nerves on edge. Last week, bouncing into a reception at (of all places) the Turkish embassy, he called the crisis off between gulps of champagne: "Let him be damned who wants war. There will...
...threat of national suicide will probably deter an all-out nuclear war, Henry A. Kissinger '50, Assistant Director of the Center for International Affairs, said last night...
...Bonn had failed to make good on its threat, a score of nations ranging from Sweden to India would surely have followed Tito's lead. This would have given the East German regime a new diplomatic respectability, which would reinforce Russia's crafty argument that the way to reunite Germany is not by nationwide free elections (in which the Communists would be overwhelmed) but by some kind of deal between the Bonn government and East Germany's puppet rulers...
Canny Konrad Adenauer quietly set up a shadow Economics Ministry in his chancellery to take over if Erhard's prophecies flopped. But the professor's exhortations to Germans to wait for lower prices paid off. The inflation threat faded, and the German economy took off on the boom that has yet to end. Shortly after that crisis, Erhard took a hefty bite on his cigar and told a visitor: "Remember all those announcements I made about controls? You know how many I had to put in force? None...