Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between salvos, weary, grimy A.R.P. squads cleared rubble, fought fires, dug out the dead and the living in the worst seven days of the robomb terror. Statisticians totted up averages: each day 108 one-ton robombs were mauling southern England (which meant mostly London), each day they destroyed or damaged 17,000 houses. Only half as many civilians (2,441 a month) were being killed as in the blitz's bloodiest days, but the proportion of seriously injured stood higher. At week's end the capital had a 30-hour respite, broken when a fresh wave of robombs...
...still over him was the constant menace of more terror, and perhaps worse.* He wished he could speed the clock's hand through the war's eleventh hour, but he knew the robombs had slowed his own hands somewhat. He could still take it, and did, but he was certain he had had about enough. He was thoroughly...
...implacable lines set the tone for the bloody terror that still racked the Reich a fortnight after Claus von Stauffenberg planted a bomb under the Führer's table and blew the crisis between the Nazi Party and the Army officers wide open...
...brush country back of Port Mozambique, Portuguese East Africa, where reeds grow shoulder high, terror stalked last week. Ferocious, fearless man-eating lions were eating more & more...
...hear?-from the fields, the growling of those ferocious soldiers?) In lanes and byways, terror had its inning. Patrols of the resistance corralled 40 frightened men & women in a cellar, among them some of Joseph Darnand's hated Militia. Some collaborationists killed themselves rather than surrender to their neighbors. In an alley two gendarmes forced a collaborationist to his knees, cocked pistols at his head, made him salute the Tricolor. Nearby another group dragged along an Italian by the hair, made him kneel and shout Vive la France! Then they slugged him on the head, kicked him, spat...