Word: threats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seems to me that union members should be held individually responsible for the be havior of their representatives. Perhaps the threat of a substantial fine might arouse a keener interest in how the votes are counted and how the money is spent...
Wouk feels, though, that Judaism is gravely threatened today in America, and he threat is not the traditional one of exclusion or persecution. He personifies Judaism as "Mr. Abramson" disappearing down a broad highway at the wheel of a high-powered station wagon, with the golf clubs piled in the back. Wouk puts it in terms of an imaginary news tory: "Mr. Abramson left his home in the morning after a hearty breakfast, apparently in the best of health, and was not seen again. His last words were that he would get in a round before going...
...from most of the religions represented at Harvard--different in its stress on tradition and dogma, and also in its claim to catholicity. There is an undeniable fascination for the agnostic of a positive faith--an attraction which may be disliked but cannot be denied. Skepticism may pose a threat to the Catholic's faith, but Catholicism, on the other hand, is an open threat to the skeptic, because it holds forth hope...
...unsettling quality of a hailstorm on a sunny day. In Europe, Dwight Eisenhower and Nikita Khrushchev, each in his own fashion, made a display of moderation in anticipation of their forthcoming exchange of visits. But in Washington representatives of the SEATO powers were gravely considering the most serious military threat their alliance had ever faced, and in Rio de Janeiro U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold cut short a Latin American tour to fly back to New York for an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council. While Moscow burbled of a "thaw in the cold war," new Communist aggression...
Neither university will build big apparatus. None is necessary; space-age man encounters many natural plasmas and creates many new ones. Fluorescent lamps are full of glowing plasma. The newly discovered Van Allen radiation belt, which surrounds the earth and stands as a threat to space-voyaging man. is a thin but dangerous plasma. The fireballs of nuclear explosions are made of plasma; so are electric arcs. When the warhead of a missile slams back into the atmosphere, it heats the air around it to 18.000° and turns it into an electrically charged plasma...