Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that Shelley's contemporaries understood him much better than Apologists Thompson, Dowden, et al. By placing Shelley squarely in his French Revolutionary context, Author White highlights Shelley's real meaning for our time. In a day when the same old exaltation of the masses, the same revolutionary terror and dictatorship, have culminated in World War II, the family line from Marat to Lenin to Mussolini to Hitler is revealed as passing through Percy Bysshe Shelley...
Skulls to Cartoons. Until recently, health organizations tried to scare people about syphilis and tuberculosis with posters of gaunt men on crutches, skinny mothers spitting blood, public drinking cups shaped like skulls. Today public health educators have turned from the strategy of terror to the wiles of entertainment...
...brutally attempt to destroy or enslave nations which reject that belief, the latter have no alternative but resistance. If that resistance stirs up unedifying emotions, the same thing could be said of the feelings aroused in the innocent victims of any catastrophe--not only the emotions of fear and terror, but even those of exalted heroism, which, however admirable, inevitably disturb the desirable tranquility of normal life...
TIME'S splendid tribute to the American correspondents in China, appearing in the newspapers, first attracted my attention. As a former Far Eastern correspondent who has lived under the Japanese terror, I know and appreciate the danger and the horror of living with the assassin's gun at one's back every minute of the day and night. Those correspondents who remained on the front lines of the Sino-Japanese War have long deserved recognition for their services to the American people...
Instead of formations of 50 and 60 at a time, a larger number of twenties and thirties have been scattering up and down the Eastern Counties." The Germans weVe diffusing their terror...