Word: threats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Coach Roper is still adhering to his policy of holding his best offensive threats in reserve. Slagle, Tiger triple threat, will not be in the starting backfield, but he is sure to see action Ewing, Digman, Beares and Gilligan are the starting carriers...
Slagle Held Back as Threat...
...smash on that alone*2) Although Germany is apparently not heeding Russia's menacing suggestions that she had best keep away from a Locarno pact (see RUSSIA) , she cannot but be . influenced by so powerful a neighbor and may be able to play off the Russian threat as a reason for acceding to some or all of the demands of the Allies; 3) Previous conferences have failed; those at Genoa, Cannes and The Hague broke up, and the Lausanne conference was carried through to the dissatisfaction of nearly all concerned...
Bluffing on the part of the Angora Government began by calling four more classes to the Turkish colors, the massing of four divisions of cavalry at Jezire-ibn-Omar, 20 miles behind the Mosul frontier, and mild efforts to prepare the Dardanelles against a possible naval threat from Britain. The Jumhuiet, famed Turkish Government journal, announced: "They are merely measures of national defense . . . since the emasculate League of Nations wallows as a mere servile instrument of British dictatorship. A recourse to arms remains as our only means of defending our rights...
...Whether the lining up of the opponents of communism will check the revolutionary movement, as it is meant to do, nobody knows. It is only natural that the threat of revolution has aroused the opposing forces. The certainty of the struggle in the case of revolution that this arousing implies, may check the communistic aims...