Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps the Russians do not expect a revision of the status of Spitzbergen? Perhaps this new threat is to set the world twitching while other problems are influenced by pressures developed in this new threat? If this is the Russian tack, and many feel it is, the answer is much the same. For bargain-basement diplomacy signifies a mistrust of motive, an unwillingness to place confidence in a structure of good will and fill in the details according to principles agreed upon during...
Less glamorized than the Varsity's top hurdler, but posing a more dangerous scoring threat for the K of C meet, is the pole vaulting trio of Pete Harwood, Bill Lawrence, and Owen Torrey. In view of their 1-2-3 sweep of the Harvard-Tufts-Northeastern test, they may easily do some damage Saturday night. They are all capable of 12 1-2 feet and over...
ATLANTA, January 19--Herman Talmadge, whose claim to governorship of Georgia is currently challenged by M. E. Thompson, declared tonight that he would continue to hold the office and would "not yield to any threat or bow to force...
When the trucks stopped rolling and the threat of food shortages became very real, the British threw in what Washington has so often in the past considered the final, unanswerable weapon--the troops. The response was immediate, and directly adverse to what Americans, judging from past faith in the efficacy of olive drab uniforms and bayonetted rifles, would consider natural. Instead of calling the men back into the driver's seat, the truckers felt disposed to shout "Blacklegs!" at the Tommies who were learning a new twist to the King's service. Hopping mad, the Union began bellowing...
...occasion for such an inconsequential purpose is so unjustifiable that if you do not change your minds you are going to face a complete change of the rules of this Senate, face a change that will bring about cloture on any subject. We cannot begin a session facing the threat of a filibuster on every measure we may bring...