Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York, will be the featured singer. Going to the other extreme, there will be a wrestling match, to be refereed by Dick Harlow, between Marvin Westenberg, who won the World's Championship several years ago under the ring name of the "Shadow," and King Kong Kashey, the "terror of the Ring...
...asking a policeman for the time; Steiners utter lack of interest in the world's news ("For someone swimming under water . . . the color of the fishes isn't important"); the man who stands at a Paris police window seemingly in perfect nonchalance, streaming with the sweat of terror; a magnificent passage in which Steiner watches Germany swing past his train window in the dark; Steiner's observation that for exiles "simply eating together almost takes the place of home and country...
...ride on a truck carrying an empty coffin. As it was raining, he crawled inside the coffin. Soon, the truck took two more passengers aboard. As they drove on, the peasant raised the lid, ejaculated: "It's stopped raining." Over the side went the other riders in terror. One was killed, the second badly hurt...
...inform you that no labor dispute exists between this company and its employes, despite attempts of certain groups of labor agita tors to create the false impression with the public. This is the same group which introduced the 'sitdown' strikes to Amer ica and the reign of terror which followed. . . . These former 'sit-downers,' whose acts of terror in Michigan industry alone make Jan Valtin's revelations in Out of the Night seem like Mother Goose stories, would now sabotage the Defense Program of the nation to satisfy their greed for dues and more dues...
...Says Librarian MacLeish, with a glance over his shoulder at Authoress Anne Morrow Lindbergh: "The famous woman who assures us in a beautiful and cadenced prose that democracy is old in every country, and that the future like a wave will drown it down, accepts the same alternatives of terror and despair...