Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Primitive Terror. The High Flyer explosion, which was recorded by a seismograph in Denver, did more than sink a neighboring freighter and rake the remains of Texas City. It stirred a primitive terror. A wild evacuation jammed the roads out of town...
...Jewish civilian were killed. (In London a bomb was found in the Colonial Office; its crude timing device failed to explode it.) Irgun announced that it would take ten British lives for each of its "soldiers" hanged. Palestine was taut. The Army's showdown with the terror gangs seemed to be at hand...
Last week, for the first time since 1910, Manhattan had a Whistler show. The 47 paintings, watercolors and pastels on exhibition were as soft and sure, and some of them, as beautiful, as a butterfly's landing. The terror of the drawing rooms had passed into history, and his trademark had lost its scorpion sting...
...minded, troubled boy in his late teens (Alf Kjellin). The villain is a pathologically cruel Latin teacher (Stig Jarrel). The provocatress of disaster is a loose girl of the town (Mai Zetterling) with whom the boy becomes involved, partly through sexual infatuation. But he is also concerned over her terror of a pitiless lover whom she dares not name but who, it becomes more & more obvious, is the sick teacher. Commencement time is approaching. The boy becomes ever less capable of study, ever more painfully the victim of his own confused love affair and of the teacher's venom...
World communism, on the Russian plan, would substitute terror for war, asserted Dorothy Thompson in New Lecture Hall last night, as she found any vigorous counter-movement by the United States impossible without "a genuine renascence of Democracy...