Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terror of the Evildoers." Nineteen days after George Marshall's arrival in Chungking, the Government and the Communists signed a truce. Six weeks later they signed a formal agreement to reduce and merge their armies (from 300 divisions to 60, within 18 months). But no man understood better than the Special Envoy that agreement, in principle, on a high political level would mean nothing unless kept, in practice, at a low political level. He had promoted the idea of an Executive Headquarters, set up at Peiping, which sent out Government-Communist-U.S. field teams to enforce the truce...
Baffled Dutch occupation leaders could be thankful that Bali was not repeating Southeast Asia's familiar pattern of blood, terror and famine. Intensely cultivated Bali had more food than the natives could...
...Mood. In Manhattan, cinemaddicts shuddering at Dr. Terror's House of Horrors were not too much surprised when 200 square feet of plaster ceiling ripped loose, crashed on orchestra customers' heads...
With all the fervor of a grim old theologian, Pastor Niemoller declared: "We have made a discovery that . . . has surprised us far more than the Nazi terror and has terrified us much more than the unimaginable consequences of our collapse...
...Warsaw and Monte Cassino will be remembered. And yet, as Poland under her conquerors has gone from disaster to disaster, the tradition of struggle by patience and stealth has replaced the tradition of chivalry. Last week a Western diplomat, commenting on the stories of subterranean terror by both left and right in Poland, said: "The Poles fight better underground...