Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Life. But the past, and even the new threat of bombing by Japanese planes, seemed unimportant to Filipinos living amidst the great, exciting fact of the U.S. Army. The Army was everything to all men-entertainment, a source of supply, a rich and uncritical market, and a vast library of information. Filipino jazz lovers, who were still singing Oh, Johnny and The Dipsy Doodle, pumped soldiers for new songs and lyrics. In Tanauan, an enterprising Filipino, knowing G.I. tastes, set up a hamburger stand. Another stand sold G.I. ten-in-one rations back to the troops...
Price Boss Gordon, easily aroused by any threat of higher prices, reacted characteristically. Said he: ". . . We are not going to be stampeded. . . ." The price of these stockings would be "fantastic." Anyway they are made with "silk obtained from Japan...
...going on the East Prussia-Poland front. But Eisenhower knew that what the enemy most wanted him to do was to wait. Surveying the Allied reserves, the Germans could conclude that he had no intention of accommodating them. Still up General "Ike's" sleeve was a potent threat-General Brereton's powerful airborne army. It was a fair assumption that in his reserve areas there were other divisions besides, waiting for the break...
...said: "We must have regard to our flank on the Continent. It is sometimes suggested that any advocacy of economic, political or strategic unity in western Europe is a threat to Russia. There should be no such thought in our minds, and if that thought exists in the minds of the Russians, it can easily be removed. There is nothing more challenging in our desire to organize the strength of the nations on our flanks than there is in Russia's organizing the nations on her flanks...
...arguments of the opposition (principally the conservative American Medical Association): 1) the bill is a threat to freedom because it might restrict a patient's free choice of physicians; 2) it might cut the doctor's income by putting an end to fee-for-service; 3) it might lower the standards of medical care; 4) it would probably put control of U.S. medicine in the hands of lay bureaucrats; 5) anyone in the U.S. needing medical care can get it right now (free, if necessary), if he will go to the trouble of asking...