Word: threats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Sudan south, the Central African bastion would widen out. From it, the British would be able to slam the gates of Suez on any aggressor. They could rake an enemy in the Persian oilfields with rockets launched in Kenya or Khartoum. No threat to a peaceful Soviet Union, the African girdle might be a potent barrier to Russian expansion across the Middle East toward India...
Twice in the waning minutes of the game, the Bellboys were thwarted by penalties and incompleted passes, with the ball inside the Dudley 10 yard stripe. But, late in the second quarter, they had already made one threat good; and that proved to be all they needed...
...ghostly threat of famine that haunted Japan throughout the summer had vanished. Already 50 cars a day were rolling into Tokyo with early maturing rice...
...league baseball clubs-the Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs-had been after him. So were several sharp-eyed West Coast fight managers, who thought he was a natural boxer. Last week, making his Manhattan debut against Fordham before 30,798 Polo Grounds fans, Weddmeyer, a quadruple-threat man, ran, kicked, blocked-and threw three touchdown passes...
Prime objective of the team will be to make their ground attack click--a weak factor in the offensive thus far, but one which Lamar deems essential before their standout passing can be counted on as a real threat...