Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...portending the birth of industrial civilization, too often forget that in a deeper sense it was a spiritual earthquake that violently reorganized the religious basis of human beings in the Western world. To read this book is to experience that earthquake. First published in 1563, while the temblors of terror were still rolling across Europe, The Actes and Monuments of the Latter Perilous Dayes was the work of John Foxe, an industrious Anglican divine who described two centuries of Protestant persecution in a colossal chronicle that ran to more than 4,000,000 words and was instantly recognized...
...French are gone from Southeast Asia, but there's a lingering trace of Talleyrand in Vu Van Thai, South Vietnam's ambassador to the U.S. Just as Talleyrand spent the Terror safely secluded in the United States, so did Thai work as a U.N. staff member in Togo, during the seven coups and dozen reshuffles since the fall of Diem. Thai's return suggests that he has mastered Talleyrand's chameleon-like ability to shift positions and survive...
...fabled hockey champions who burned up the House League and reaffirmed their superiority in the playoffs, take on Yale in the big one this afternoon at 3 p.m. is Watson Rink. The fast-breaking Elephants feature such stalwarts as Captain Chip Clark. Tom Dingman, Dave Taylor, and Red, Terror Mechem...
What would you do, goes one of the favorite guessing games in Viet Nam, if you were running the Viet Cong? Launch a wholesale terror campaign? Focus on winning the peasants? Toss in the towel and try Laos? Some answers came last week from an unexpected but authoritative source: the Communists themselves...
Lady Who? A reasonable question, for the world has almost forgotten the greatest Englishwoman of the 18th century. Her beauty was the cynosure, her wit the terror, her private life the puzzlement of Hanoverian London. She was the confidante of one Prime Minister (Walpole) and the mother-in-law of another (Bute). She introduced smallpox vaccination to Europe. She rivaled Pope as a satiric versifier, dazzled Addison and Steele as an essayist. Above all she was acclaimed, by Dr. Johnson himself, as the greatest of the great letter writers of 18th century England...