Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Gerhardsen last week: "These events [in Czechoslovakia] have awakened gloom and apprehension among us. ... The threat to Norway and to the freedom and independence of the Norwegian people is the danger which the Communist Party represents at the present moment. The most vital task in the fight for independence, democracy and security under law in Norway is that of reducing the Communist Party and its influence. . . . We will try to convince those who joined them in good faith during the war, in the belief that the Communist Party was national and democratic...
...year and a half ago Charles de Gaulle so feared that a threat to France's independence was implicit in Soviet-U.S. rivalry that he called for a Europe isolated from both groups, an element of "equilibrium" between the two. Since then, De Gaulle's icy isolationism has been thawing...
Middlebury, the winners of the Dartmouth Carnival competitions, promise to be the strongest team on the slopes. Dartmouth always looks as a threat, but the team has its goals set high, and wants more than just another wing over Yale...
...Manet had seen fit to invite common people off the street to pose for him, he imitated the impossible glare of sunshine, and he even dared to picture nudes in contemporary settings. Napoleon III himself pronounced Manet's Déjeuner sur I'Herbe (see cut) a threat to public morals. Public disgust was summed up in one word-a word delivered with the sneers reserved for "abstractionism" today-"realism...
...effect of a U.S. reversal on the Jews and its subsequent repercussions in the U.N. According to the current rules of the game, it will be perfectly all right for Arabs to slaughter Jewish settlers as long as they stay within reasonable bounds and do not constitute a threat to the peace. The concessionaires are quite willing to swap a human life for a tankful...