Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Guerrilla warfare in Greece's north continued. A high-ranking U.S. officer in Greece last week declared that there was merely a lull in the fighting. Terror still littered the countryside: last week, a picture from Yanina, in Epirus, showed two guerrillas identifying the severed heads of fellow guerrillas recently killed near the Albanian frontier. One of Greece's gravest shortages being transportation, the bodies were left behind...
...summarized by the American Bible Society: "Sanballat practiseth by craft, by rumors, by hired prophecies, to terrify Nehemiah. The work is finished to the terror of the enemies...
...first, and classic, account of German "psychological warfare" was Edmond Taylor's The Strategy of Terror (1940). In 1943, Taylor got a wartime job well suited to his gifts, as OSS coordinator with Lord Louis Mountbatten's Southeast Asia Command. Richer by Asia tells how 28 months in Asia changed...
...worst cases the doctor had ever seen. When the patient, a 37-year-old bartender, was carried into the doctor's office, imaginary rats were gnawing his feet, wild-eyed cats scrambling over his body, flames licking at his stretcher. The man was screaming and jumping with terror...
...Lieut. Cooper, works in the Newspaper Section of Military Government; his job is to unearth heroes, i.e., German journalists who had bucked the Nazis and somehow survived. He squirms guiltily in his role of judging conqueror. How would he, as a German, have stood the test of the Nazi terror? What right has he, a noncombatant desk officer who has always doubted his own courage, to browbeat the uncourageous...