Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Terror & Grain. Groza acted. From every hamlet, every urban neighborhood, one, two, three people disappeared. Many of them had nothing to do with politics, but fear inhibits opposition. Next, opposing leadership was wiped out. Top officials of Maniu's National Peasant Party were jailed for plotting to overthrow Groza. To prove how guilty they were, newspapers printed an official photograph which showed twelve of the accused, with two pilots and piles of baggage, "preparing to flee" in a rickety old single-engined, three-place biplane...
Fighting Quaker. Where did this terror of the tycoons, this gorgon of gossip, spring from? Like most great legends, Hedda's girlhood, as she recalls it, is swirled in mist, lit by occasional flashes of fire. She was born Elda Furry, in Hollidaysburg, Pa. (near Altoona), in 1890. Her father, a meat dealer descended from a long line of Quaker ministers, begot a long line of children (nine), of whom Elda...
...rights off revolutionaries of all shades, called Soldier MacArthur's occupation of Japan "the greatest revolution I have ever seen." About Korea he was much less hopeful. There, a lack of U.S. policy, an inept military government and factionalism among Korean politicians has produced a "reign of terror." Japan, the former enemy, was like a "liberated country," while Korea had all the earmarks of a conquered country...
...convicts broke out of the provincial stockade, disarmed their guards and a platoon of sleeping military police, and took over the town. They captured the mayor, the governor of the province, and Paul Leuterio, majority leader of the Philippine House of Representatives. After a 15-hour reign of terror, MP reinforcements routed the rebels, killed Romero...
...became part of an even greater tragedy. Wagner, says Mann, was a "voluptuary" whose battle against his own lavish, romantic sensuality was a lost cause from the start, and whose passionate fairy tales suffered the horrible fate of being engorged in a "beetle-browed about-face toward dictatorship and terror." Yet Wagner, too, Mann insists, was an idealist of "the epoch of bourgeois culture," a "man of the people who all his life long . . . repudiated power and money, violence and war." Nazi use of Wagner's "folk and sword and Nordic heroics," says Thomas Mann, "are but unworthy plunderings...