Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sept. 1, when Hitler marched into Poland, Leonard Lockhart stumbled home, huddled by the gas fire with his wife, brooding over the horrors of war, over "boys on barbwire having their guts shot out." Then, half-drowned with reminiscent terror, he went...
...wilderness, of battles fought by spectral shapes in a winter of perpetual night, without thinking that in our own day a new, haunted, legend-breeding region is being created-something that for our own time is the Dreadful Forest, as the Black Forest was a region of terror in the middle ages, or as the Swamp of the Great Dismal was in the days of the runaway slaves. This war of people freezing as they fall, of petrified corpses, of armies falling into lakes, of feeble sunlight touching the warriors for a few moments a day, is something for which...
...knows no terror like that which an earthquake excites in him. After the first rude awakening to a confused sensation of being thrown by a horse or buffeted by an unbeliever, each frightened Turk thought something deadly was happening to himself alone. If he was not killed in his bed before he could command his muscles-as thousands were, by the piles of stones and dirt placed on the roofs of Turkish houses to insulate them for winter -he next wanted desperately to escape his shaking surroundings and get outdoors, thinking to find stability there. But if he gained...
...Hundreds of thousands were homeless. They huddled under tents or in temporary shacks in the snow-covered fields, or in the ruins of their homes, shivering with terror and with cold. The stricken area (same latitude as New York City) suffered its worst cold snap of the winter, with temperatures as low as 22° below zero...