Word: fright
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried to run. Walls twisted and split above him. The earth beneath rocked so crazily that he could not move his feet. Then an avalanche of crumbled masonry buried him to the neck. When he was dug out, his brothers were dead-and in the shock and fright of his own eyes was the measure of Chile's disaster...
...hero is a small, grey pharmacist named Jonathan Rebeck who took fright at the world 19 years before and hid out in a Bronx cemetery. Dodging caretakers and sleeping in a mausoleum, amusing himself by reading and working out chess problems, he has found armistice, if not peace. Jonathan Rebeck sees and talks with ghosts, but his only live companion is a truculent raven who steals food for him, and whose conversation runs more to "The hell you say" than "Nevermore." As the book opens, Rebeck is gnawing a baloney the raven has liberated ("Damn near ruptured myself," the bird...
...Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamberlain drew up a grant of 5,000 sq. mi., in what is now Kenya's white highlands, to serve as a Zionist refuge until the Holy Land should be opened to them. But a Zionist commission inspecting this temporary Promised Land took fright after being nearly crushed by stampeding elephants, surrounded by Masai warriors, and rendered sleepless by roaring lions. Shuddering "No, thanks," the commissioners hastily left British East Africa to the birds, beasts and black...
...came in for some digs from his own side, from Lord Morrison of Lambeth, the cockney " 'Erbie" Morrison who still resents being defeated for the party leadership by Gaitskell. As the Suez crisis deepened, wrote Lord Morrison last week, "Mr. Gaitskell and our Labor [leadership] began to take fright, to become very anti-anti-British, anti-French and anti-Israeli-and rather hysterical...
Half-mad with bereavement and fright, Algeria's Europeans were easily persuaded to blame all their troubles on De Gaulle. Relentlessly, right-wing politicians hammered at the argument that De Gaulle's offer of self-determination for Algeria was a display of weakness which encouraged the rebels to believe they could win independence by violence. But without the support of the army, the settlers could not hope to resist De Gaulle successfully. And though increasing numbers of junior officers outspokenly echoed the settlers' complaints, Old Gaullist Massu had long made it clear that, while he might grumble...