Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...adversaries: he was a European, a deep European, not just from the fringe of Britain, France, and Scandinavia. He grew up in the center of Europe between the wars, when old Balkan societies were in flux, governments were tyrannical or unstable, and economies sickly or chaotic. For Western Europe, terror was still an outrage, even in war-time an exception to the rule. In Eastern Europe, terror walked in everyday clothes; Dedijer's first wife joined the fighting against the Germans after she saw four Partisans hanging from street-lamps in Belgrade's main square...
With a team batting average of 200 the Indian lineup does not throw rival pitchers into paroxysms of terror. But Dartmouth does have three usually re-unable batters: Second baseman Mickey Beard, who has a mark of 348; out fielder Ken McGruther and cather Dick Horton, both of whom are hitting...
...emotional." But one might wish that Myra Nassau acted more like Mary Martin and less like Martha Raye, that Dean Stolber (De Becque) were not made up to look like an escaped convict, and that both of them would stop registering true love as if it were midway between terror and disgust...
...students and faculty in Baltimore. He described the Vietnamese war as one of "unparalleled brutality," where "simple farmers are the targets of assassination and kidnaping. Women and children are strangled in the night because their men are loyal to the government. And helpless villages are ravaged by sneak attacks . . . terror strikes in the heart of cities...
President Guillermo León Valencia denounced the Inza raid as "violence financed from international fields," sent 1,000 anti-guerrilla troopers chasing after the killers. Even as the man hunt was underway, new terror struck nearby. Kidnapers seized Harold Eder, 61, one of Colombia's richest and most influential industrialists, from his ranch near Cali, beheaded Eder's police bodyguard, demanded 2,000,000 pesos (about $145,000) ransom, the highest sum in the sordid history of Colombian kidnaping...