Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...showed bomb scars, and he lived in only two rooms of it. But Hungarian peasants understood his blunt speech. He told them to stop reading government newspapers and stop listening to the radio. In a pastoral letter he proclaimed: "To the bitter disgrace of this country, falsehood, deceit and terror were never greater...
...year-old infantryman was a gay and awesome fighter in the lines. In North Africa he once put on a one-man show that resulted in the capture of almost 600 Italians. In the rear areas he was a holy terror. He liked to wear officers' uniforms, or bits of uniforms from several different armies. He consistently roamed away from his guard duty post, would walk a mile to avoid a salute...
...Joseph and Stewart Alsop's column of erudite background, sound and sometimes brilliant opinion, and feedbox gossip. The editors got two pundits for the price of one: while Joe was realistically sizing up Dewey and Stassen in Oregon this month, Stewart was appraising the "twilight terror" in Czechoslovakia...
...last section of the book, utilizing incidents and characters already reported by the author in My Lives in Russia, bites more deeply into reality than the rest. Mrs. Fischer has realized the human meaning of separation and terror. But to dramatize humanity against inhumanity, while it may be the best possible counter propaganda for the present age, is not necessarily...
...went and said to him, 'Do not lie there like a toad. Why not go to your regiment and be a man?' He turned up his face with a stupid, terrified look . . . and then without a word turned his nose to the ground." Other men, mad with terror, tried to hide in a fold in the ground: over them stood Union General Gibbon, saying "in a tone of kindly expostulation: 'My men . . . All these matters are in the hands of God, and nothing that you can do will make you safer...