Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, would put the U.S. hip-deep in the shipping business. Such commercial entanglements, said Douglas, lead governments to nationalism and "its natural offspring the totalitarian state." Such a tremendous involvement in shipping would inevitably lead the U.S. into competition with other countries. After that-"war . . . becomes first a threat and finally a devastating fact...
...after Sister Kenny made her latest threat to go home, New York's Representative Donald L. O'Toole introduced a bill proposing a Congressional investigation of the opposition to Sister Kenny. On hearing of the bill, Sister Kenny announced that she would wait: ". . . I do consider in all fairness that the suggested Congressional investigation should be initiated at once in order that the people of America . . . should know the truth. If it is their desire that I leave . . . I shall go. If it is their desire that I stay, I shall remain...
From Cairo last week came new evidence that ancient temples of the Nile Valley are threatened with ruin. The threat comes not from war but from the measured plans of peace. Diverted by the elaborate network of dams and canals developed early in this century by the British to irrigate parched cottonfields, the waters of the Nile have been gradually washing away the foundations of some of Egypt's most famous monuments...
...sensitive provincial war lord was even more shocked. "Bears, lions, and other beasts cannot use a human language," he barked, and banned Alice as "an insult to the human race." In 1936, an eminent Austrian psychiatrist recoiled, shuddering, before Alice's "oral sadistic traits of cannibalism" and "continuous threat to the integrity of the body...
...without Women. "Men cut off from the influence of women," says Author Lennon, with a faculty for understatement that any Briton might envy, "seem nearly always to develop eccentricities." The psychiatrist who felt that the country of Wonderland was "a continuous threat to the integrity of the body" was simply putting in the wrong nutshell the Reverend Dodgson's own anxiety about the dangers of everyday life. Son of a stern archdeacon, eldest of eleven children, only two of whom married and nine of whom were girls, young Charles seems never to have got over the belief that there...