Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mood, but it seems to have Implications. Nothing is wrong with Implications, except when it isn't clear what they imply. This adolescent profundity produces the most irritating literature known to man, and "Radditudes" should put up a special mechanism to keep it out. It is a constant threat in the March issue. Especially in the poetry...
Goldsborough had fined Lewis $10,000. The Court upheld that. He had fined the union $3,500,000. The Court reduced that to $700,000, on condition that Lewis withdraw his new strike threat...
...some 600 years the family fended off her threat-and survived. Then, the Tichbornes went to France and the gift was forgotten. In their absence the manor house was destroyed. Two generations of seven sons and seven daughters came & went, and the Tichborne lands and title passed to one Edward Doughty. Born a Tichborne, Edward-by a fluke of fate-had changed his name earlier. The curse was only technically fulfilled, but since then every Tichborne has been careful to make the annual presentation of flour to the villagers of Alresford...
Party members will, of course, go underground. They have never been a serious threat at the polls, and their only effective mode of operation has not been as Communists at all, but as parts of other organizations, whose purposes they have sought to control and subvert...
...year. Only Britain's economic and political assistance had enabled the country to keep up its costly, nerve-racking resistance against Communist demands on the Dardanelles. With Britain unable to furnish assistance, Turkey would crack up under the cost of continued mobilization. The Russians could accomplish by mere threat of invasion all that they could hope to achieve by invasion. If Turkey and the Dardanelles went, the whole Middle East might slide into the Russian orbit...