Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their Sunday clothes in little bundles. They staged a healthy, yowling child-riot when forcibly washed, given haircuts. Next day in a tent city in which they had been installed the Basque children suddenly lost all bravado. A squadron of British planes on practice flight hammered overhead. Screaming in terror, the Basque children stampeded for their tents, holes in the ground, anywhere they could hide. They were not quieted until a Basque priest had said Mass, a Basque chef stewed up steaming caldrons of their national dish, bacalao Bilbaino (creamed codfish...
...intercourse, is, indeed, being sabotaged by the fear and the threat of war. The Hindenburg represented the world and for that reason our eyes lighted when we saw its silver grandeur in the sky. It contended with another world which might make it at any moment an object of terror and of hatred...
...Sanctuary of the Virgin, a convent atop Mount Cabeza, last week scaled the granite walls of their fortress to escape. They were fleeing not from the Leftist siege but from two officers of their own side, Captain Cortes and Lieutenant Ruano, who had set up a rule of military terror in the convent, throwing into musty cells the starved and sick who wanted to surrender. During the siege, 21 children were born in the Virgin's Sanctuary...
...association" and four officers of waiters' and cafeteria workers' unions, Prosecutor Dewey's chunky right-hand man, William B. Herlands, argued a total of 182 charges of conspiracy, extortion and attempted extortion. By stink-bombings, strikes and threats of strikes, he asserted, they had forced the terrorized proprietors of The Hollywood, French Casino, Brass Rail, Jack Dempsey's, St. Regis, Lindy's and many a lesser restaurant and cafeteria to join their "association," pay tribute of some $2,000,000 per year. Not seriously disputing the picture drawn by Prosecutor Herlands and his witnesses...
...missed on any excuse. At times the human side of the war is stressed--the droll "Tommies", the clamorous market-place the mock rebellion of the Irish youngsters, and the peace and beauty of the open fields These details serve only to silhouette more sharply the brooding terror of the rebellion. Sudden death is the backdrop for all the scenes, and always it is threatening to fall down on the players. There is enough martial noise and clank to satisfy the most blood-thirsty, but some other element makes the movie great...