Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Mountbatten could not laugh at the threat. He had to hustle...
...between miners and mineowners. The mines are now under Government control, but the miners' discontent remains unchanged. Better off than they were before the war, they are determined not to lose what they have gained-and in the Government's latest move they thought they saw a threat...
Plainly Dev and Eire had not budged from their traditional Anglophobic bomb shelter. Having dispatched his note, Dev mobilized Eire's army (30,000 men), alerted the militia (200,000 men), ordered bridges mined, airfields double-guarded against an imagined invasion threat...
...year-old girl in a mental hospital tried to kill herself last fall with the only weapon at hand, a 2½-in. sewing needle. She succeeded in getting it be tween her ribs and into her heart, but she did not die. Though the needle was a constant threat to her life, doctors let it alone for a month until the patient became calm enough to undergo an operation. X rays, meanwhile, showed that the needle was working its way through the tough heart muscle...
...threat developed overnight, and grew hourly. Behind it loomed the skilled hand of dynamic, canny Konstantin Rokossovsky-the man who destroyed the German Sixth Army at Stalingrad.* Inactive for two months, "Rok" last week hurled into battle a force estimated by Berlin at 100,000, captured Rogachev...