Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With justified pride, President Truman last week announced that the U.S. had kept its promise and that the world famine emergency had been met. What had been done was not enough to prevent widespread suffering, disease, and uncounted deaths in Europe, China, India. But the threat of mass starvation had been dispelled...
Roman Catholicism, Morrison says, does not merely threaten Protestantism-it is a threat to America itself: [It] is a self-enclosed system of power, resting upon the broad base of the submission of its people, whose submission it is able to exploit for the gaining of yet more power in the political and cultural life of the secular community. . . . Its triumph in America would radically transform our culture and change the character of our democratic institutions...
...Again the trouble was lack of machinery, antiquated methods, shortage of manpower. Moreover, unless slipping coal production could be boosted, the entire export program might have to be curtailed. There were estimates that coal may fall as much as 20,000,000 tons short of needs next year. The threat of a manpower shortage hung over all production...
...town after sun-baked town crowds gathered, listened with hot-eyed intentness, and cheered The Man. Even planters in the rich Delta country who had always opposed him would vote for him this time. They thought him a knave but they knew he would filibuster to death any Congressional threat to "white man's supremacy" such as FEPC (the Fair Employment Practice Committee). Nothing short of a miracle would keep Bilbo from renomination, election, six more noisy years in the nation's capital...
Last week a new British Royal governor, pink-faced Sir Henry Knight, 60, who looks like a retired lightweight champion, punched out his challenge to dacoity-"Burma's Public Enemy No. 1." He had two jobs in Burma, which he linked together (perhaps unfairly) with a threat; his soldiers would "take immediate action against people who make subversive speeches" because "in some cases there is a direct connection between subversive activity and dacoity...