Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have had difficulty collecting instances of bomb fright among children," said the doctor. Of 8,000 Bristol school children, only four per cent showed symptoms of terror after air raids. These children were between the ages of one and six, came mostly from broken homes, had been nervous before the raids. Most normal children play air-raid games, sometimes enjoy the excitement. What bothers children more than bombs is disrupted family life...
Word that a mad killer was loose spread through the district. Police mobilized the largest force of. the war for the man hunt. Newspapers pushed war news aside to make way for a running account of the terror. Ambulances from the Air Raid Precautions services were dispatched to the suburbs. As the day grew older, the list of victims mounted...
...garden. . . . The crime lingered in my mind only because of its nightmare touches. The conspirators blew open the door of the Palace with a dynamite cartridge which fused the electric lights, and they stumbled about blaspheming in the darkness, passing into a frenzy of cruelty that was half terror. The King and Queen hid in a secret cupboard in their bedroom for two hours, listening to the searchers grow cold, then warm, then cold again, then warm, and at last hot, and burning hot. The weakly King was hard to kill: when they threw him from the balcony they thought...
...beloved professor of English Literature at Smith College. One night, according to a campus story, when she was traveling in a lower berth, the man in the upper threw down a note reading "MADAM; Shall I come down?" Miss Chase, in describing the adventure, concluded: "Almost more than my terror at this moment was my horror at the monstrous use of the semicolon...
...dropped a set-up breather to Tufts. None of the Crimson strategists have yet been able to decipher the 3 to 1 victory the Jumbos perpetrated; but whatever the explanation, to news set the local Varsity back on its phsychological feet once again. Brown is no longer an unbeatable terror but a squad of ordinary mortals capable of having an off day with the worst of them...