Word: terrorism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...terror of darkness is the first and so the deepest of all fears. It was a thing that made a little three-year-old girl in Juliette, Ga., lie shaking in bed at night, kept awake by a troop of crying phantoms and wild dreadful faces. Every closet was to her a nest of horrors; great cats crouched on the shelves, snakes writhed among the shoes on the floor; if you put your ear to the keyhole when the door was shut, you could hear them mewing and hissing, but no matter how suddenly you looked in, the wise, hungry...
There have been persistent rumors circulating among the denizens of the yard that a special freight car will bring it East and that all Purthunder will strike terror into the thunder will strike trror into the hearts of the Crimson stands and sound the note of victory for the wild warriors from the West...
...gorillas, of which he estimated there were but 100 left in Uganda. He reported that there were perhaps 150 white rhinoceroses still at large and called attention to their placid, inquisitive, harmless nature. He said, as all big game hunters know, that the water buffalo was still the terror of the water holes. And he said (here was where the slayers of large animals rejoiced) that elephants are far from dwindling in Uganda...
This was, of course, an allusion to the formal charges of the Soviet Government last fortnight that Britain means to launch war upon the Soviets and maintains "spies and assassins" throughout Soviet territory. Against this so-called "British terror" the Soviet continued its adroitly named "counter terror." A score of alleged "British spies" were reported sentenced to death in Russia last week, notably one "Commander Klepikov of a ship in the Baltic fleet, who sold information to the British...
...this terror, gentlemen? No! It is hardly even severity. Is it terrorism? No! These measures are measures of social hygiene, of national prophylactics. I remove certain individuals from contact with their fellowmen, as a doctor would segregate one affected with infectious disease...