Word: threats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R. did not mean that the U.S. would give ground. That evening, at a dinner in the presidential palace, the President of the U.S. paid his own unique tribute to the doughty land that had done him such honor. Said he: "No power on earth, no evil, no threat can frustrate a people of your spirit...
...China Crisis. The crisis with China displayed all of Nehru's weaknesses. It was a threat that Nehru, typically, first tried not to see, then ignored and then tried to argue away. This spring he dismissed news stories of Tibet's revolt against the Red Chinese as "mere bazaar talk." When Tibet's religious leader, the young Dalai Lama, and 13,000 Tibetan refugees came pouring across India's border, Nehru seemed acutely uncomfortable. To Red China's hysterical charges that Indian "expansionists" were behind the revolt and that the "command center" of the rebels...
...director of the Central Intelligence Agency, cautioned that in the struggle for the uncommitted nations, Russia had a "subversive arsenal of organizations which use the slogans of peace, friendship and coexistence. We have not answered the challenge if we limit ourselves merely to meeting the Kremlin's military threat." Watson's speech was greeted with some restraint. Later, it was liberally interpreted (Watson left for Europe immediately after the speech) by incoming N.A.M. President Rudolf F. Bannow, president of Bridgeport (Conn.) Machines, Inc. to mean that "if you give the economy more push, it will produce more taxes...
...story of Charles Revson [Nov. 16] typifies a greater threat to the U.S. than atheistic Communism: it is materialistic capitalism, which bores from within, making the essence of our whole existence the almighty buck. Until the so-called successful capitalists in this country base their activities on the principles upon which this country was founded, we will indeed lose the fight for a better, peaceful world...
Halfback: Ron Burton, 23, Northwestern; 5 ft. 9 in., 180 lbs. Major: education. "Great speed and elusiveness; whenever he carries the ball, he's a threat." Close behind Burton the pros rank Iowa's Bob Jeter ("as fast as you want them") and unsung Abner Haynes of North Texas State ("He's 180 lbs., and he runs...