Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...background to New Deal labor legislation. He conceded that the abuses of power by employers had brought about the penalties which employers now suffered. He could recall the great Carnegie Steel battle at Homestead, the sweatshops of the Manhattan garment trade. He might have known something of the terror of workers in union-hating plants. But what he saw now was a counterrevolution and New Deal excesses...
Offense. In Palestine, the Jewish Irgun Zvai Leumi ("Liberation Army") thought about the pipeline, blasted it apart in two places. That was a signal for renewed terror; four British soldiers were wounded in other incidents. Palestinians and Britons feared that they were in for another twelve months of bitterness and tension until U.N. acted...
...second said: "EAM" (National Liberation Front, the leftist anti-Hitler organization which became an instrument of Communist terror...
...great harm unless it discourages the making of better pictures on the same subject. But it will do no particular good either. Far from straining at the seams of security, it tells the average citizen little he doesn't already know about atomic fission. Of the peculiar terror and agony of the bomb in human terms, it tells incomparably less in two hours than certain newsreel shots of Hiroshima's survivors told in as many minutes. The treatment of the moral problems exacerbated by the bomb is once-over-lightly. Problems of atomic control (Army v. civilian...
...chore boy, Nath Storm (Lon McCallister), learns from his wooden-legged employer (Edward G. Robinson) that the deserted Red House near the farm is strictly taboo. So are the deep woods that surround it. No reasons are given, beyond Farmer Robinson's obvious terror. Nath and the farmer's adopted child (Allene Roberts), thus forbidden, cannot resist trying to find out what it's all about. They are variously hindered by Nath's lush sweetheart (Julie London) and her sinister spare-time boy friend (Rory Calhoun). Their quest for the core of the farmer...