Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...even without the comparisons with the outside world, "Lady in the Dark" would not fit as a mature study of the psychosis of the American career woman. The topic is not frivolously handled, but the contrasts between "she got herself a husband but he wasn't hers" and the terror of psychiatric difficulties reduce a great deal of the picture to the level of the ludicrous...
Rabaul and its fine harbor dozed on volcanic fires. On a day in May 1937, the fires awoke. In the harbor, Vulcan Island exploded. Shipping was destroyed. Plantations were ruined. The town quaked for two terror-filled days. When it was over, the people swept up the pumice and tried to settle back into their hothouse calm. They did-until January 1942, when the Japs arrived...
...first was to Vienna, to the ruins of the millennial empire whose prewar life he had affectionately reported, and to Soviet Budapest, where Béla Kun reigned and the Red Terror was on. ("I shall never forget Béla Kun as I now saw him at close quarters and cheek-by-jowl with his coterie of conspirators. . . . He had a round bulbous head and his hair was so closely shaven that he seemed to be bald; he had a short, squat nose, ugly thick lips, but undoubtedly his outstanding physical feature was his great pointed ears. Some people...
...Hamburg, Frankfort and Berlin seem to me to go a long way beyond what hitherto has been the declared policy of the Government and the Bomber Command." Viscount Cranborne, Government lead er of the House of Lords, gave the prelates a firm reply. He denied that R.A.F. bombings were terror raids, told how last summer's flights over Hamburg had cost the Germans 400,000,000 man-hours, insisted that industrial life ceases only when "the whole life of the cities in which they are situated [is brought] to a standstill...
...cover. Even over the island of Eniwetok, furthest west of all the Marshalls, the carrier-based planes arrived (see map, p. 19). The atolls shuddered under the impact of bomb upon bursting bomb and presently the screech and clump of shells added to the din and terror. Out of sight, over the horizon, surface ships had joined the carriers and were bringing the little men's islands under naval gunfire. Long awaited, long expected, the U.S. attack on the Marshalls was developing (Tokyo hinted that U.S. forces had landed at some points...