Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mother Will Know. At 20, he caught a heavy cold, and when he took his handkerchief from his mouth after a coughing spell, he saw with horror "a tiny spot of blood on it." Life, that had hitherto been "desirable and glorious," was charged suddenly and forever with the terror of death. This terror spurred Wolfe's rebellion against those who urged him to look for security in life-"the crawling, abject, bird-in-a-hand theory." To his mother's plea that he settle down to teach in Asheville, he replied "I must make or ruin myself...
...Tunisia, an ungainly aircraft whose name once spelled terror passed into the twilight. Germany's famed Stuka (Junkers 87) had paid the penalty of age. The Stuka was no longer a dreaded hawk but cold turkey for British and American fliers, who had command of the air and knew what to do with...
...Tulips & Terror. Hollanders forsook their tulips for daisies, wore them in their buttonholes, painted pictures of them. The daisy was their badge of allegiance to the House of Orange and exiled Princess Juliana, whose new daughter was named Margriet (Daisy). In Berlin the Sunday promenaders on Unter den Linden strolled past the bomb-pocked buildings and the windowless houses left by Allied bombers...
...Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath) the camera witnesses many important events that take place offstage in the play. The picture shows the Nazi invaders' confident march into the mining village of Selvik, their mowing down of a pitiful dozen of Norwegian soldiers, the villagers' terror and confusion. Then, in the sharp language of action rather than introspective comment, it describes the villagers' growing hatred and resistance, the Nazis' growing fear...
...Germany. In every village there will be some men after the destruction of Nazism who will be recognized by their neighbors as decent and trustworthy. We do not know today who they are. But they will come" forward or be discovered when the Gestapo is no longer an omnipresent terror--perhaps a Lutheran pastor, a former burgomasters, a postman or other civil servant a decent army officer or soldier who is disillusioned about militarism, a former trade-unionist, or a brother or father who returns from a Nazi concentration camp...