Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Zygielbojm's wife & children perished in the terror that followed. But the Jews helped Zygielbojm to escape. He carried their appeals and exhortations to France, then to America and to Britain. There he became a member of the Polish National Council, was in continuous touch with the Polish underground...
...buttons, and now the big, dark mines, each weighing 1,500 pounds, tumbled from the planes. Some landed with a splash in the water; some hit the dams fair & square. When the roar of their explosions had subsided, the sustained, deeper roar of pent-up waters, suddenly released, struck terror into the hearts of those below...
...shots-90% from newsreels and confiscated enemy films-rise to levels of tragic poetry (a drum-deafened sequence of hordes of marching Axis children, youths, men in uniform, and the dazed faces of their elders) and pity and terror (a shrill, doomed maggot-swarm of naked, newborn, state-ticketed Axis babies). There is some effort-there might well have been more-to demonstrate the United Nations' shameful failure to realize the intimate connection between their fate and that of a ravaged Manchurian hut in 1931. There is also a 1939 newsreel, a poll of man-in-the-street views...
Chief Mate Munte blanched, passed his hand over his face, looked again and fainted with terror. He soon found himself under escort, bobbing over the dark waters towards England. With him were his subordinates, dressed as they had been when roused-in pajamas and, curiously enough, hair nets...
Once in a while there is a deft Saroyan touch which leaves you with that mellow, warm feeling inside. Such is the case when young Ulysses, frightened to terror by a figure in a store window, suddenly realizes the meaning of the word "afraid," and his face lights up in wonder with the new-gained knowledge, as the tears vanish. But when Brown, Estabrook, and Saroyan use their same technique on the philosophies of death and immortality, the effect is not the same. Saroyan's message, as simple as the child Ulysses, can't be spread on with a thick...