Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...triumph was not a surprise to anyone, though some thought it might be a bit closer. Joseph and Scanlon seemed to pose more of a threat than they turned out to be, and, there was the danger that the Crimson runners might be a bit too confident of themselves...
Listing the Vietnam war, the threat of nuclear war, and the growing power of the military in American life as causes, Waid said, "Our government has become preoccupied with death, with the business of killing and being killed...
Terming the reported resignation threat ridiculous, Pusey and the two Overseers, Paul H. Nitze '28 and Amory Hougrton Jr.' 50 said that there has been no conflict between the Overseers and Pusey, adding that the arrangement for the new University Committee had been specifically left to the President in the Friendly report...
Operation Intercept also has obtained the cooperation of the State Department to intensify its efforts in "persuading Mexico to place a program of eradication and control of marijuana and other dangerous drugs among the highest of national priorities." One effort to "persuade" is a threat to make Tiajuana off-limits to U. S. military personnel...
...warmaking of the fanatic Swedish Protestant, Gustavus Adolphus. Richelieu counted on Gustavus to harry the Austrian Hapsburgs, which he did. But the Cardinal was unable to keep Gustavus leashed, and until the Swede's death in 1632 at the battle of Lützen, he was a growing threat to France. The passionate Gustavus, as O'Connell observes, was unable to tell the difference between religion and politics; and the cerebral Richelieu, who was accustomed to making the distinction, failed to understand that trait in Gustavus...