Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Threat. "Only from the air is [the enemy] able to terrorize the German homeland, but in this respect also technical and administrative conditions for finally breaking his terroristic attacks are coming into existence, as well as those for retaliation by other and more efficient means...
...maintain a world patrol of its own. In Mexico, Chile and Argentina, at Navarino in Greece, at Dulcigno on the Adriatic and at Peking during the Boxer Rebellion, against the Barbary pirates and the pirates of the Far East, Britain and other great powers used force or the threat of force to keep the peace...
...adoption of the Constitution the states (or, technically, their citizens) gave up the bulk of their sovereignty; they agreed to share with the national government some of their most vital powers and to endow it exclusively with others. Even so, it took a bloody Civil War-a type of threat to future world peace too often overlooked by planners of world governments-to convince some of the states that the nation was more sovereign than they...
...promptly ordered the "unconditional return" of all strikers. The Johnsville strikers did not obey. But when local U.A.W. leaders tried to spread the strike to Brewster plants at Long Island City, N.Y. and Newark, N.J., they found WLB's threat effective. Workers from the two Long Island City plants meeting in New York's Queensboro Arena, turned down an immediate strike call, voted instead to abide by the law calling for a 30-day cooling-off period. Next day, the Johnsville strikers went back, with nothing to show for their walkout except four days' lost production...
...hrer and his guards required patience and trickery. When packages arrived for the prisoners from home or from the Red Cross, the guards would stare avidly at bars of chocolate, coffee, wool socks. In return for small favors, prisoners would reward the guards, later demand greater favors under threat of reporting the guard for eating a prisoner's food. To Hélion. who worked as an interpreter in the Kommandoführer's office, there came a daily cup of steaming American coffee. (The coffee, sent to Hélion from the U.S., was prepared...