Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...conclusion, a care fully vague but unmistakable threat was hurled at the world in general by Signor Turati. The technique of this threat is now virtually "standardized" among Fascist statesmen in imitation of II Duce...
...pupils, but I dare say that she leaves them totally devoid of inspiration resulting from the radiation of those fine and noble purposes which should actuate every schoolteacher and college professor. I cannot conceive of a woman threatening boycott even on such illusive provocation. But fear not. Her veiled threat that she will make enemies for TIME throughout her limited sphere of influence will, if put into effect, produce results which will react contrary to her expectations and very much to your advantage...
...Future. Few or none of the broken levees have been repaired, leaving a constant threat of new floods from even slight rises in the Mississippi. Some Arkansas farmers have already planted three crops, seen them all washed away, are now planting a fourth. Stagnant waters have formed tremendous swamps, mosquito-infested. There is fear of a large scale outbreak of malaria. Mr. Hoover has estimated that Red Cross funds will last till Nov. 1, with $3,000,000 left over. There seemed little prospect that the flood area, as a whole, would be in any way self-supporting by November...
...Sicily and below Naples, where the power of Fascismo is more a distant threat than a present force, prices and wages scarcely wavered. In central Italy there was obedience at Rome and in Fascist centres generally, but much resistance elsewhere...
...majority of the Commission declared that further study is necessary on this point, stating that the presence of 500,000 able-bodied Belgians in their occupied homeland would have constituted a threat to the German forces of occupation...