Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Objectives. Thus Khrushchev translated the new world prestige of Sputnik and the world's fears of Red missiles into one, specific, power-political threat to an area that the Communists have long and unsuccessfully sought to domi nate. He sought to intimidate NATO Partner Turkey, which is menaced by Russia on the north and by an increasingly Red Syria on the south (see FOREIGN NEWS). He sought to feel out the temper of the NATO nations and discover whether the U.S.'s European allies would stand by the U.S. He also sought to make an impressive power play...
Greater Power. The U.S. met the new threat to the Middle East as it had met the old. During the Suez crisis the Russians had threatened to rocket-bomb London and Paris and to send Communist volunteers into the Middle East; the U.S. responded by warning the Kremlin that the U.S. would forcibly oppose the Communist volunteers, that any rocket attack against Western Europe would trigger instant U.S. air retaliation against the centers of Soviet power (TIME, Nov. 26 et seq.). Now the State Department fired off a tough statement warning the unpredictable Khrushchev, in effect, that the U.S. would...
...Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. "It does not prove they can fire anything parallel to the earth over a distance of many thousand miles." And even if Sputnik did imply Russian possession of an early version of an ICBM, the balance of atomic superiority still lay with the U.S. "The threat of devastation still hangs heavy over the Soviet head, derived from the ring of bomber bases. We know nothing to suggest that Sputnik or anything like it can stop such potential destruction," said a British foreign-policymaker...
Khrushchev's threats took shrewd ad vantage of a moment which found the U.S.'s Middle East position in temporary disarray. In its attempts to rouse the area to the threat presented by a Communist-dominated Syria, the U.S. had displayed its power too nakedly, set Arab leaders off in a whipped-up frenzy of public denunciation of U.S. interference and pledges of confidence in Syria. As a result the bloc of "reasonable Arabs" - Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia - which the U.S. hoped to solidify had fallen into suspicious disorder. Jordan's King Hussein, plagued...
...vote of 66-0 with a single abstention--Liberia--the 82-nation Assembly approved a recommendation of its Steering Committee that it take up the Syrian complaint that a threat exists to Syrian security and also to world peace...