Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...suits of asbestos made incursions behind the French lines. The Germans used cardboard shapes to decoy bombing attacks to fake airfields, and dummy superstructures to make trucks and light tanks look like heavy tanks. They mixed delayed action bombs with their contact bombs, so that even duds caused terror. German bombers scoured the skies over Allied columns moving along highways, coming down in ear-shattering power dives to bomb and machine-gun, then zooming up into high loops to dive again farther down the road (see p. 21). And the Sixth Column-the milling, hysterical hordes of refugees...
...that choking of individuality which has told so heavily upon the youth of the totalitarian states. And the everyman-a-policeman attitude, strongly encouraged by the F. B. I., that resulted in the unfortunate Grand Rapids incident bears a startling and frightening resemblance to the Gestapo-inspired reign of terror in Germany...
...lugged from Amsterdam by a British officer who pushed off from Ijmuiden to England in a commandeered motor boat after Amsterdam had fallen. Gone was her stock of diamonds: the last store, worth several million dollars, was snaked out of Amsterdam to London by a diamond merchant after the terror had struck...
...Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Montro the Whale is living proof that a glob of blubber covering the screen, with an eye in the middle, can with a sneeze inspire both terror and laughter. J. Mortimer Foulfellow, who is a hair-brushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity. It may be a 20th-century, streamlined job--this "Pinocchio"--but the old familiar tale is robbed of none...
...cloud, is not a good place for Air Power to prove itself better than Sea Power. But the fact that the British risked their heavy ships within gunshot of Stavanger gave strong evidence of Allied confidence after a week of testing against Marshal Göring's sky terror. The safe landing in Norway of most of three divisions of Allied land forces added proof to confidence...