Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already the Americans had anchored the Allied flank on the Loire near Nantes. To the east was open, rolling country, interlaced with direct roads to Angers, Le Mans, Tours, Alengon, Paris. To the north the Germans still held hard to their Norman anchor below Caen. But they saw the threat. To consolidate against a possible swift U.S. flanking envelopment, the Germans quickly made an orderly withdrawal behind the Orne River. Below Caen the weight of British and Canadian armor was still poised for a breakout. Its obvious first use would be to punch the Germans back against the Seine...
...this, so far as outsiders could divine, was that the new Jap Cabinet and new Supreme War Council had thrown ex-Premier Tojo's China-first policy out the window. With high hopes for Oikawa as a brilliant strategist, they were preparing to meet the U.S. threat from east and south...
Minneapolis Judge W. W. Bardwell, who thought that by issuing the injunction he had averted a strike threat, was as angry as Mr. Hubbard. He promptly is sued a warrant for Boss Petrillo's arrest. But the warrant could not be served-Boss Petrillo was well out of reach, in Chicago...
...Helmericks soon found that the surly Yukon was no highway of ro mance. It carried "the silt of half a continent," and floating forests of trees and driftwood were a daily threat to the frail Queen Beaver. Arctic breezes whipped up icy waves that drenched the honeymooners to their skins. When they spent the night on a river island their down-lined sleeping bags were soon sodden with stagnant water...
...Dean had power-in his pen and in his past. Author of 28 books, he was onetime Headmaster of Eton. Conning a mental list of some of his old boys, he wrote them letters inveighing against the threat to Durham's ancient beauty. Old Etonian Viscount Cecil rallied the Old School Ties, roused the bonnets of the House of Lords. In the House of Commons Durham-born Samuel Storey demanded an investigation. Town & Country Planning Minister William Morrison hastily promised...