Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much in evidence during Saud's visit, but sailors from a visiting Soviet cruiser and destroyer filled Damascus' streets. As if he had not seen them, Saud issued a statement that "Syria cannot possibly be a cause of threat to any of her neighbors" (a public rebuke to Dulles), and left for home. Damascus' semiofficial Al Akhbar hailed the visit as "a new victory for Arab nationalism and a severe blow to imperialist politics." But in the kind of parting gesture Arabs make so much of, Saud shook hands with President Kuwatly, then before getting into...
Gomulka undoubtedly realizes that if there were no longer a threat to Poland's borders by German "militarists," Russia would have lost its official excuse for keeping its troops in Poland. That should make it worthwhile for both Germany and Poland to get together...
...sent Bobby to Minneapolis to sample the pleasures of life in a Big Ten football factory, but instead, Bobby moved to Seattle to play football for the University of Washington. By the end of his sophomore season, he was first-string quarterback, already building a reputation as a triple-threat gambler. He could run like a bulldozer and pass like a pro. He specialized in exasperating his coaches and exciting his fans by calling for such outrageous maneuvers as a third-down pass with only 1 yd. to go for a touchdown...
Cornell's passing may take advantage of weaknesses in the Crimson defense, as so many throwers have in recent years. Deficiencies in this department have been carefully worked over in recent weeks, and if they have been eradicated the Crimson can concentrate on Bo Roberson, a great threat running out of Cornell's slot offense...
...recent years, he said, the nation's reserves are not increasing fast enough. "To disrupt and impair our sources of supply abroad and jeopardize relationships of industry that have been built up with foreign nations over a long period of years can result in a more serious threat to national security than any temporary excess of crude-oil imports...