Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...circ. 8,135,982) whose Sunday breakfast is a pumped-up omelet of cornfield murders, betrayed maidens, prehistoric monsters and the evils of vivisection, are going to get more herbs with their eggs. A new publisher is in the kitchen. He is 63-year-old Walter Howey, onetime holy terror of Chicago journalism, and the real-life model of Front Page's brash, blustery managing editor...
Their most important and spectacular campaign was against an estimated 30,000 enemy troops on Borneo. It was also their most successful. Under the Corps command of dapper, dashing Lieut. General Sir Leslie ("Holy Terror") Morshead, onetime schoolmaster and hero of the siege of Tobruk, the 7th Division had secured the vital Balikpapan area within three weeks of its invasion. Last week the 7th beat down bitter resistance to take another first-rate military prize: the Sambodja oil field, 28 miles northeast of Balikpapan and one of the three major producing areas of eastern Borneo...
...lose Macedonia. The dominant Communist element in EAM lost popularity when it came out in favor of a "little Greece" and the cession of Macedonia to a Balkan federation. Last week EAM echoed the Belgrade and Moscow press: it publicly attacked the Voulgaris Government for promoting a "regime of terror...
Premier Marshal Tito last week charged that Greek forces had fired across the Yugoslav frontier in an effort "to provoke us." Thousands of Macedonians, he said, had escaped into Yugoslavia to escape Greek terrorism. "Our soldiers," Tito added, "have not replied with a single shot." At the same time Moscow, which last week reported similar atrocities from Macedonia, announced that the National Front Government of Federal Macedonia had protested to the Yugoslav Government that "fascist" Greek organizations, supported by units of the Greek Army, were carrying on a reign of terror. The Macedonian organization, said Tass, official Russian news agency...
...Macedonia of everyone who is not a Greek citizen? Or was the Government of Marshal Tito, which long ago included part of Macedonia in its plans for a federated Yugoslavia, preparing to carry out its plans? It was still too soon to say. But there was little doubt that terror of one kind or another was sweeping Macedonia...