Word: threatfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Humanity faces a tragic future if the war threat is not brought under control. Any government that summarily rejects these disarmament proposals would accept a frightful responsibility before all the world...
...trade with the U.S.) At this week's International Monetary Fund meeting in Washington, Thorneycroft and other European delegates will pose anew the old question: How can Europe play in the poker game of international finance and trade when the U.S. holds the chips? The implied European threat is to set up its own separate game, cutting all the U.S. imports...
...danger is that the effort will be sabotaged by the bureaucrats, those who have made a career of emergency-type, government-to-government foreign aid. Not only does the new program pose a sharp threat to the perpetuation of much of foreign aid in its present form; it calls for a completely new approach. Instead of handing over foreign-aid funds in lump sums to foreign governments to pass out as they wish, it now also becomes necessary to find worthy loan possibilities among private businessmen unable to get credit in their own countries or from U.S. banks...
...situation much better on those streets which are one way. For one of the real dangers of the parking problem lies in fire--it is virtually impossible to maneuver a large hook-and-ladder through a maze of parked cars on a narrow street. The fire threat is especially prevalent on some of the cluttered, crowded streets in the more run-down areas of the city, notably around Inman Square, but is also applies to the University. Last spring a grease fire broke out in the Lowell House kitchen, and it was only with the greatest amount of sweating...
...Catholic Colombia, hatred of Protestants-especially the active, evangelistic denominations-has long been cultivated. Ever since 1887, when Roman Catholicism became the country's official religion, Catholics found a lively response to whispering campaigns against the threat of Protestantism. Conservative Party Dictator Gómez was convinced that all Protestants were members of the Liberal Party and hence his mortal enemies. Just before Gómez was overthrown by Rojas in 1953, his government signed an agreement with the Vatican cutting two-thirds of the country into 18 mission territories in which only Catholic churches and schools could operate...