Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world's number one hurdler, but they will have their hands full. Pole-vaulters Bill Lawrence and Gene Lockett with match leaps with Bob Richards of Illinois (winner of last year's Millrose vault at 14 feet, and the favorite tonight), Boo Morcom, University of New Hampshire triple-threat field man, and Yalio freshmen Bill Apel, who set a national schoolboy record of 12 feet, six inches at Andover last year...
...Threat. The commissioners were not panic-stricken; they were measured and matter-of-fact. But the U.S. was under definite threat, they said. They saw no hope that the United Nations would develop "in time" the authority to prevent another war. The threat, they reported, could be divided into two parts. The first was Phase I, which was the turbulent present, when the world at any moment could blunder into war. If war came in Phase I, it would come by accident, not from design. No potential enemy of the U.S. was yet prepared for war. The commissioners found...
...union audience didn't take kindly to her remarks, but they listened. And when, after the speech, Mrs. Wulff got an anonymous threat in the mail, that didn't stop her either. Nothing could. She talked on street corners and at over 100 rallies. Eventually, Norma Wulff, the mother of two grown daughters, talked herself into a seat on the school board. Four years ago she became the first woman president of Cleveland's school board...
...half a century the Court has been in the process of slowly altering its point of view. It struck down the "grandfather clause" of the Oklahoma constitution. It has made it exceedingly difficult for the Democratic party in the South to exclude Negroes from the party primaries except by threat or use of force. It has overruled convictions of both whites and Negroes which were secured without regard to due process...
...Comes Out Clear. The air newspapers of Miami and Philadelphia were no immediate threat to opposition papers, because nobody had found how to make them pay. The gadget was not yet a threat to the peace & quiet of the home, because a receiver still cost $600 to $900. But time and mass production might take care of all that; the big news about "fax" was that, technically, the bugs were pretty well worked out of it. Editors still had a lot to learn about type and makeup for an 8½ in. by 11 in. page. But the sheets turned...