Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Republic, in the name of Sinn Fein ("We Ourselves"). On that day Eamonn (Edward) de Valera distinguished himself by capturing Boland's Bakery, which he ingeniously utilized as a fortress and a food supply base. From Boland's Bakery he vaulted through an orgy of terror to the presidency of "We Ourselves," which constituted "the Irish Republic." When the Irish Free State Agreement was negotiated in 1920, however, he conspicuously held aloof from the representatives of "We Ourselves," who were treated with successfully by Great Britain. From that hour De Valera's prestige began to ooze into...
...carnivore, a night prowler, a fleet traveler on large but silent feet, which raise his snaky chest and belly clear of the ground. He is called "boeaja darat" and "land crocodile" by the Dutch, who have shot him as long as 12 feet. He is an object of abject terror among the island natives because of his habit of devouring his food with ferocious nocturnal noises. He is fairly easy to hunt, being deaf. He is, scientists believe, a cousin of the smaller monitor lizard (ravager of crocodile eggs) which the Smithsonian men hope to get in Africa; that...
...centuries to rise up against each other periodically and must they develop a civilization that is doomed to be trampled upon by armies and crushed and saturated with blood? No. . . . Locarno has given people confidence. It makes it possible for mothers to gaze on their sons without feeling terror for the future. . . . Locarno is a germ that must be carefully tended, and not crushed by the heavy foot before it has time to grow. Such a crime must not be committed by the French foot...
Undoubtedly the instinct of ages past animated the men and women who quietly listened to the sickening snick which marked the end of a black man's life. Such incidents make understand able the sang-froid of the French women of the Parisian terror who knitted without dropping a stitch while the guillotine cut off royalist heads...
Professor Ripley, he whose name has so recently cast terror into the heart of Wall Street, is to talk on pools and trade associations this morning in Economics 4b. His lecture, which will be in Emerson D at 11 o'clock, has besides the reputation of Professor Ripley the appeal of a subject which runs Arabic philology a close second in my ignorance, but which sounds vastly interesting...