Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Played Out. The terror and tragedy that had struck the Sillan household left Westport in shock. Householders locked doors, double-checked windows and waited in dark apprehension, as if time itself had been suspended. The police, meanwhile, worked methodically and got on the trail fast. They discovered that a handyman named Harlis Miller, 31, had not reported for work the day following the crime; he had disappeared with his common-law wife Rosalie. He fitted Gail's description of a handyman she had seen working in the neighborhood; he had worked once at the Sillan place...
...ascetic, Cabot was a terror. He neither drank nor smoked. But at 72 he could beat opponents half his age at tennis. He played a savage game of chess until he was 85, when he gave it up because he found it was too exciting. At 86, after recovering from a brief bout with pneumonia, the first thing he did was call for his Indian clubs. When he was 90, he got on a Boston subway, rode to Cambridge, picked up an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard, tucked it under his arm, got back on the subway...
...Because the research and indexing tasks are immense, many of the prosecutions are a decade or more late, but, says Schüle hopefully, "one thing leads to another." Thus, when Central Office agents were interrogating a onetime SS leader, the name "Heuser" kept cropping up in connection with terror against Jews near the Russian city of Minsk. But "Heuser" meant nothing until the Central Office cross index turned up the grisly testimony of a witness at the Nurnberg trials who recalled that one "Obersturmjührer Georg Heuser" had poured gasoline over a dozen Jewish prisoners and burned them...
...Call to Terror. The full measure of Castro's fury at his humiliation came clear in the radio messages crackling across the Caribbean from Havana: "This is a call to terror . . . Attack U.S. citizens and their properties . . ." Here and there throughout Latin America, street riots erupted and were easily put down. Only in Venezuela was there real trouble. Hours after the call to terror from Havana, four explosions shook the eastern shore of Lake Maracaibo, where foreign oil companies have 9,000 wells pumping 2,400,000 bbl. of oil daily. The blasts wrecked four offshore electric transformer stations...
...lying on her back near the footlights pedaling air in a setting-up exercise. Suddenly a man in the first row stood up and whispered wickedly, "I have something for you," then heaved the something on the stage and scooted out a side exit. Carroll shrieked in terror, thinking maybe it was a bomb. But it was only paper-a summons ordering her to appear in Manhattan Supreme Court to answer a $66,377.50 lawsuit filed by Warner Brothers over a contract squabble. "I feel this is one of the most insensitive things I've ever heard of done...