Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...children (the varmints) who grow up on the wrong side of the tracks in a town like Apalachicola. Author Bennett describes their environment sympathetically, and now & then probes their moods with humor and delicate skill. But more often she assaults her readers with rhetoric ("0 God, what jubilance, exuberance, terror and pain"), plagues them with questions ("What is love? . . . What are you, Pivot?"), emotes, postures, harangues...
Once again Japan has felt the terror and death attendant on a great earthquake. In 1923 our country (through the Red Cross) sent Japan an enormous amount of aid, for which those people were profoundly grateful, even though 18 years later they were led into making...
...spirit of partisan exuberance tempered with terror, Poland approached its first nationwide popular election, ten days hence. By last week most of the combined opposition (Socialist and Polish Peasant Party) candidates had been jailed, and their supporters more or less completely cowed by the secret police, by striking their names from voting lists and by arrest. The Communist-dominated Government ventured to predict an "overwhelming" victory. According to the Potsdam Agreement, the Polish elections must be absolutely free and secret...
Boola, Boola. As a matter of fact, Soekarno lives in terror of assassination, although the passionate loyalty and vigilance of the men around him would make an attempt difficult. Few men in the postwar world evoke the fanatic devotion of millions as does this 45-year-old child of luck and revolution. He is tall for an Indonesian (5 ft. 8 in.) and, by native standards, superlatively handsome. His Malay is self-consciously choice; in fact, he is so insistent on advancing the native speech that he is called Indonesia's Webster (meaning Noah, not Daniel). He is quite...
Moderate Zionists prepared to combat the terrorists in part by terror. Some even planned to kidnap leaders of the extremist bands, hold them until the fanatics ceased their activities...