Word: threats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps it was only a threat, but the tears were certainly authentic. Joe Willie Namath, quarterback of professional football's world-champion New York Jets, insisted that he meant business when he announced at a news conference that he was "retiring reluctantly" from the game-and taking Teammates George Sauer, Pete Lammons and Jim Hudson with him. The 26-year-old superstar, whose high-velocity passes carried the Jets to a startling 16-7 upset over the National Football League's powerful Baltimore Colts earlier this year, gave as his reason the latest in a long series...
...service-connected. Nevertheless, the opinion establishes a strong precedent for wider federal court review of military tribunals in the future. That sentiment was best summarized by one sentence in last week's decision: "History teaches that expansion of military discipline beyond its proper domain carries with it a threat to liberty...
...Apollo program, he says, he has heard such statements as, "Of course, it's a sham, but what else could we do?" and, "The public needs to be comforted, and the quarantine serves that function." Shocked by this seeming indifference to what could be a real threat, Alexander calls on NASA to reveal its quarantine plans fully and "to solicit frank opinions and criticism" from the scientific community...
...might well survive in the bodies of the astronauts and in the spacecraft atmosphere. Thus, when the craft is vented upon splashdown and when the hatch is opened twice-no matter how briefly-dangerous organisms could escape into the air and the ocean, perhaps to thrive and pose a threat to life on earth...
Subtle traces of this vivid posturing are still evident years later in adulthood. Like the angered child, grownups often turn an open palm toward those who happen to pose a verbal threat, although the gesture may be quite inconspicuous and unconscious. Women, for example, tend to make a rapid hand-to-neck movement when they are agitated, disguising it as a hair-grooming gesture. Men also exhibit similar signs of stress. Embarrassed by such a driving miscue as accidentally cutting off another motorist, they will frequently make a seemingly irrelevant sweep of their hair. Actually, the gesture represents a very...