Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...International suspicion would not abate until the Russians were convinced that the U.S. did not intend to use the atomic bomb as a diplomatic threat. "We want to keep our skirts clean on the bomb," said one U.S. diplomat...
...Threat of Destruction. ". . . This poem is a miracle. Its bitterness is the only justifiable bitterness, for it springs from the subjection of the human spirit to force, that is, in the last analysis, to matter. This subjection is the common lot, although each spirit will bear it differently, in proportion to its own virtue. No one in the Iliad is spared by it, as no one on earth is. No one who succumbs to it is by virtue of this fact regarded with contempt. Whoever, within his own soul and in human relations, escapes the dominion of force is loved...
...deal, Rank would distribute through his 820 theaters abroad at least eight pictures a year made by International. In return, Rank would get what he never had before, wide U.S. distribution of at least eight top pictures yearly. All Hollywood hoped that this would end Britain's threat to squeeze Hollywood out of the golden British market. Many a British M.P. had angrily suggested that importations from Hollywood be cut. They had complained that Hollywood made $80,000,000 a year in Britain, while British pictures, even good ones, could hardly get a showing in the U.S.. Example...
What they feared was that the New Dealing Administration would decide to continue this role in peacetime, virtually do away with the free commodity market. To ward off this threat, seven of the nation's big exchanges formed the National Association of Commodity Exchanges & Allied Trades, Inc.,* in Chicago...
...greatly concerned about Java. I follow the fate of the innumerable children, women and men . . . who are in danger of their lives and still not liberated from the threat of the confused masses. I deeply regret the sorrows that will inevitably have been inflicted upon the population of Java before order and tranquility have been restored...