Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd cornered two terror-stricken Negro boys against a fence. Under a volley of fists, clubs and stones, the boys went down-but not before one of them had whipped out a knife and stabbed one of his attackers. In a surge of fury, the nearest whites kicked and pummeled the two prostrate bodies, turned angrily on rescuing police with shouts of "nigger-lover...
...best of his only choice. He set the plane down on its belly into the mottled, moonlit sea, a mile from shore, 400 yards from a small island. The lights went out. In the black horror of the cabin many of the Puerto Ricans, chained to their seats by terror, just prayed and waited...
...James family had a rare talent for striking up acquaintances with ghosts. In 1844, when Novelist-to-be Henry James was a year old, his genial papa, Henry Sr., was scared into "a perfectly insane and abject terror" by a shape squatting invisibly before him. For two years the elder James searched for relief from his fearful visitation, tried everything from water cures to cheerful company, eventually found peace only in the esoteric mysticism of Swedish Philosopher Emanuel Swedenborg...
...sometimes tedious portrayal of petty details (endless scenes of housework in the ranch kitchen for instance) he makes up for in his absolutely unsurpassed descriptions of the mountains, the storm, the break-up of a strong man under stress, and the general atmosphere of coldness, loneliness and terror...
...sitting on his porch sipping ginger ale. To them he was a scholarly squire, always ready with a merry bit of gossip, and a fresh flower in his buttonhole. To his mathematics students, he was not always so charming. He could tease or taunt them until some fled in terror. But those who stayed never forgot Professor Henderson, pacing back & forth before them, mixing Homer and Milton with his math...