Word: threats
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...like the world-even with the threat of war and famine and overpopulation hanging over it! And what's more, I'm gonna enjoy it, prophets of doom! I'm gonna enjoy today and tomorrow and next week and every day the good Lord gives me to enjoy...
Also upsetting was the threat by Negro Comedian Dick Gregory to somehow block the Democratic National Convention unless the city acceded to such demands as appointing a Negro to the "top echelon of the police department." Vowed Daley: "No one will take over a single street or a political convention, now or next summer...
...Thailand, Army Commander General Praphas Charusathien reported that a Communist battalion of 600 men tried to cross the border into his country from Laos and that two more Communist battalions were poised on the border at Nan. The Thais, faced with the growing Communist insurgency threat in the Northeast, tend to over-react somewhat to any burst of Communist military activity in Laos. The battalions may consist of Thai insurgents slipping back home after training in North Viet Nam and trying to cross the border in small units. Whatever they are, however, they constitute a threat that is bound...
North Dakota, which Harvard faced December 27 lost by one goal to Cornell in the NC AA championships last year, and appears to the biggest threat. Outside of the NCAA's 1.6 rule to the Big Red this season. Harvard stayed with the long at the start, and trilled only 2-1 after a period, but five second-period goals wrapped, the game up for North Dakota...
...role as Hero of the Revolution, Philby also revealed that he has written an 80,000-word manuscript "illuminating my position as a spy." So far, no London newspaper has dared buy his work: The Sunday Times, which was interested, was dissuaded by a threat of prosecution under the British government's Official Secrets Act. In view of the lack of buyers, Philby proposed to hand over his masterwork for free if the British would agree to release Peter and Helen Kroger, two convicted Soviet spies now serving 20-year terms in Wormwood Scrubs. His generosity went unappreciated...