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Word: threats (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...N.M.U., which is required to give a 30-day strike notice, had jumped the gun by eight days on operators of Great Lakes tankers-much to the discomfiture of other C.I.O. leaders who want to keep the strike threat as a Sunday punch against rising prices. Shipboard conditions for the N.M.U.'s 1,100 lakemen could hardly explain the haste. And the pay ranging from $150 a month for freighter deckhands to $310 for chief stewards on tankers, is good, considering the fact that seamen get meals and bunk. What Joe Curran was really engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Male Call | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...present or potential threat of militant, strong-arm Soviet imperialism worries Stowe surprisingly little; he is far more worried about what the democracies should do to put their own house in order. A war to "stamp out Communism," he feels, would probably result in world dictatorship even were Stalin & Co. overthrown. He doubts that survivors of such a war-the remnants of Western civilization, the burgeoning Asiatic millions-would give democracy another chance to prove its devotion to the cause of peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Stowe's World | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

...Grant fly down to Rio and look into the suspicious activities of a German-controlled cartel. They barely have time to discover their love for each other when patriotism intervenes and demands that Ingrid marry Boss Nazi Claude Rains. Marriage lands her right into a Nazi nest and the threat of slow poison in her morning coffee. If anyone in the audience is not sitting up in his theater chair by this time he is Hitchcock-proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 19, 1946 | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

Holt bore down at this point and registered three of his ten strikeouts to end the last Bunny threat of the day. His mates went on the win in the eighth, when Bill Richardson's towering double to left field scored the deciding run from second base...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Adams and Kirkland Win Contests In First Round of Baseball Finals | 8/13/1946 | See Source »

...Varsity netman this summer, advanced to the final round by virtue of a minor upset of Lane McGovern in a hectic three-set struggle, 4-6, 11-9, 6-3. At one time in the long second set McGovern was at match point, but Brady fought off the threat and subdued his higher-seeded rival...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fox Wins University Tennis Crown With 6-1, 6-2 Victory Over Brady | 8/13/1946 | See Source »

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