Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...road, where he shrunk to avoid the passing cars. A booming amplified voice reached his cars; it seemed to be asking questions of someone. "Where do you think you're running to? Can't you wait for the lights? Are you stupid?" Vag looked around him, and realized in terror that the odd catechism was directed at himself. But now the lights had changed, and the voice went on, "All right, move along. And wait for the light in future." Vag turned in the direction of the voice and nodded cheerfully, but all he saw was a rather hostile policeman...
...Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up tanks in the 16th Century. Wrote the painter of The Last Supper: "These take the place of elephants. . . . One may hold bellows in them to spread terror among the horses of the enemy, and one may put carabiniers in them to break up every company...
With the approach of the first millennium 947 years ago, says Mounier, man also looked to the destruction of his world. "The word 'apocalypse' has become synonymous, in the contemporary mind, with catastrophe and terror. This is a gross misunderstanding. I do not mean that the [10th Century] Christians . . . felt no holy terror at the idea of judgment and divine justice. They were neither better nor worse than we are, but they viewed their weaknesses from a high moral perspective. They thought that Justice would be severe, but they knew that the severity would be just. . . . Even when...
...minutes everyone in the area was rounded up for questioning. The curfew was on again, and the Jews of Jerusalem resumed paying the bill of terrorism committed by a small group, while the guilty men got away. Ben Hecht had said that every act of terror gave him and his extremist associates "a little holiday in their hearts." It is doubtful if Middleton had heard that Hecht had said that, or that he would have understood...
...intrepid clipper skipper braving a typhoon singlehanded; the terror of the Luftwaffe and the toast of the R.A.F.; a coldly insolent, julep-sucking riverboat gambler; the surgeon who takes over when all seems lost and is soon able to say, "Don't cry, little girl, your brother will play the violin again." And in every one of these heroic visions the same lovely blonde (Virginia Mayo) is on hand to worship...