Word: terrorisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Side Tennis Club, Forest Hills, N.Y. For Bridegroom Budge, practically invincible during two years of professional barnstorming, it was the second defeat in two weeks. On closing day, the gallery was treated to a doubles match, billed as "Brains v. Terror," featuring Information Please's Franklin P. Adams & John Kieran v. Boris Karloff & Deems Taylor, with Clifton Fadiman in the umpire's chair. Brains won, 6-4 (one set was enough...
...Andrew Browne Cunningham lost in the Cretan operation was twelve times as high as that lost off Greece. The horror off Crete was also many times as great-for while most of the damage suffered off Greece was suffered by night, the converse was true off Crete; here the terror was all too visible...
...Petticoat Terror of the Plains." In this rambling, loose book, Burton Rascoe, who spent his boyhood in Oklahoma and is still an honorary deputy of Pottawatomie County, is at pains to show that such names were not altogether deserved...
Edmond Taylor, author of The Strategy of Terror (describing the national nervous breakdown with which Hitler undermined France before destroying her) last week undertook to describe how Hitler is trying to do the same thing in America...
...such pressure on the Government of old Marshal Pétain that France expected to hear any day that it was committed to all-out collaboration. Spain took a cautious step and assumed control of customs at once international Tangier, across the Strait from Gibraltar. Portugal was in terror of invasion, expected a grab at the Azores and Cape Verde Islands...