Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the determination of the Allies to purge Scandinavia of the German terror clearly demonstrated, Sweden was perhaps nearer war, but less in dread of it. By waiting she had probably served Norway as well as herself better than by going in too soon. And having seen what happened to the Norse and the Danes will make her a better fighter if war does come. For even to the war-shunning Swedes, death is better than vassalage...
...begins in England when war with Germany was only a weekly scare and not an hourly terror. It shows war overtaking children. The snout-nosed gas mask appears. For infants too small for the mask, there is the gasproof container. There are shots of a terrified baby being forced into a container, staring through its big glass pane in panic as he is sealed in. In their back yards people construct flimsy-looking air-raid shelters, decorate them with potted plants...
...intense ambition to become world's greatest saint. Spring ferment set up a crossruff resulting in terror, self-mortification, pneumonia. A kind Jewish doctor relieved him at once of his guilt...
...Jiminy Cricket, Pinocchio's "official conscience." A worldly-wise fellow with a good heart, he nurtures his puppet-ward watchfully but without sentimentality. Monstro 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 hairbrushed and Oxford-accented Big Bad. Fox, is not only a contemptible villain, but a social satire of no mean acidity. It may be a twentieth-century, streamlined job--this "Pinochio"--but the old familiar tale is robbed of none...
...city's 38,000 schoolteachers, polled by Dr. Campbell, overwhelmingly chose "A Very Good Boy" as their favorite picture. Next day, in Brooklyn, a New York Times reporter and a cameraman found the boy who had posed for it. Cornelius Alexander Horton was now 10. Reputation: "A holy terror...