Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...turned out, possession of this incalculable hope brought only bewilderment, suffering, terror and tragedy to the fisherman and his wife (Maria Elena Marques) and to their infant son. Dealers tried to deceive them; ruffians tried to corrupt and divide them. The poor fisherman had to kill to defend his treasure and his own life. In consequence, the little family was forced into always more desperate flight through swamps and desolate country. The woman knew almost from the outset that tragedy was an inevitable part of such hope as theirs. The man had much to learn before he, too, was ready...
Matthiessen criticized as "strongly biased" the press reports of journalists such as Joseph Alsop, whose recent article in the New York Herald Tribune on "The Creeping Terror in Prague" was written, he claimed, after the author had spent one weekend there...
...Guatemala, took time off from his scheming to add his own sardonic comment. "Our efforts are confined to diplomacy," he said. "Somoza, scared by his own crimes, has a persecution complex and is trying to escape attention by making fantastic accusations to justify a wave of terror in Nicaragua...
...march of reaction . . . resist without weakening . . . fight for our rights. . . We must organize in our places of work, in the mills, on the farms . . . resorting when necessary to strikes. . . Prove to your fellow workers the real necessity of fighting and resisting the government of hunger, the government of political terror. . . We must fight for liberty and democracy . . . against the brutality of. . . capitalistic exploitation and against Yankee imperialism...
...evening a red tennis ball bumps down the stairs as if it had a life of its own, and rolls into the parlor. That is how he learns that his father is lying upstairs paralyzed, after having been shot by Randolph in a moment of hysterical terror...