Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Arabia. In Palestine Jews and Arabs live in a state of ancient and dangerous friction. Farther east, at the separate British command for Iran and Iraq, Wilson's territory touches directly the problem of Russian influence in the north Persian area where Russian power is a historical threat to India...
...life and its assumption that any piece of writing can be improved by extracting every seventh word, like a tooth. We have occasionally been embarrassed to see our stuff after it has undergone alterations. . . . Mostly, however, we object to the Digest's indirect creative function, which is a threat to the free flow of ideas and to the independent spirit...
Kwajalein is only one of several Marshall strongholds. But Kwajalein is in the heart of the group. Some of the other islands can be left to wither. Submarines and aircraft can choke them off and pin them down, render them useless to the enemy and no longer a threat. If it is necessary, U.S. troops can clean out enemy garrisons. Wake to the north and Nauru to the south will also have to be taken or knocked useless by air power...
...World War I, struck at the closed end of the Dnieper U. In a four-day battle, his Third Ukrainian Army drove through 30-odd miles of enemy defenses. Moscow announced that he had all but cut off five infantry divisions there. But more important still was his threat to the great Nazi strongholds of Krivoi Rog and Nikopol. When they fall (this week the Russians were fighting in Nikopol's suburbs), most of the Dnieper loop will be cleared out. Germany will face the prospect that both ends of its once well-knit line will come unraveled...
...Dangerous precedent ... a threat to freedom of the press," cried J. D. Gortatowsky, general manager of William Randolph Hearst's newspapers. But Czar Boeschenstein was braced to meet this kind of storm, which he had seen coming. He had allocated 20,000 tons of the extra newsprint to 65 newspapers in part replacement of WPB's 1943 borrowings distributed to quota-short publishers. Another 5,954 tons was laid aside for the extra day of Leap Year...