Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid last week raised the tonnage dropped on Berlin in one fortnight to as much as London took in all the blitz of 1940-41. A force of 500 heavy bombers attacked industrial areas in southeast Berlin, which had been largely spared, impeded recovery from the fires and terror of the previous fortnight's serial raids. Strengthened defenses cost the R.A.F. 41 planes...
...lost, he wrote that the American soldier is full of affection and the yearning for affection. In the deep despair of the Wilderness campaigns he wrote to his mother that of the many he had seen die, he had not seen or heard of one who met death with terror. He knew that he would treat wounded Southern soldiers as gently. The faces of the dead were transfigured. He stepped out of his tent one grey, dim daybreak, and walked in the cool fresh air to the hospital tent, uncovering the features of three of the dead - an elderly...
...TALES OF TERROR-Edited by Boris Karloff-World Publishing...
...fusty, bleak office in Manhattan's drafty, labyrinthine Madison Square Garden, Nat Fleischer has built his boxing museum (which he values at $350,000) and his reputation as boxing's No. 1 expert. This week the collection gets a new item: Terrible Terry, the Brooklyn Terror (Ring Book Shop; $1). The author: Nathaniel Stanley Fleischer...
...real reason was different and deeper. At a moment when the French Revolution had led first to the Terror, next to Napoleon, and third to the edge of the abyss of world dictatorship, Wellington's task was to prove to the people by his leadership that conservatism was in their interest, as he had proved to his army that his strategy was better than Napoleon's. Wellington suffered from many things-fever and loneliness in India that turned his hair grey at 32, a botched marriage; disgrace and empty victory and the fanatical hatred of some...