Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Perhaps if a platoon of regulation army top sergeants, weighing seven pud each with their shoes off, were invested with the new ponchos and put at the head of a bayonet charge, they might work the same terror on the modern Cimmerians as did Artaxerxes' now well-known elephants, even without the flapping ears and the heaving trunks. They might, given a good boost, bear their elephant-gray ponchos in a clattering charge all the way to Berlin, and end at one elephantine victory...
...think Germany is to be frightened to weak-kneed terror by some bugaboo of a submarine destroyer? Do we think she will yield to old-womanish fears, and flee in terror from Belgium, when she hears that America is about to set forth to wither her enemies? If words could move Germany, our words would have done so. Words cannot move Germany. She has not a fear of our prowess equal to our confidence...
...with any feeling of weakness, nor any terror, will our young American officers go to the front. From the death of many the life of the nation may be conserved. Knowing that, they will not falter, though the time granted to them be short...
Those six billion annual pounds represent nourishment for all the fighting men of Russia. Given to Germany, they would render England's long and arduous blockade a failure. Given to England, they would cause the shipping shortage to become a forgotten terror. They may mean the difference to our nation between sufficiency and want. They may mean to our cause the difference between justification and defeat...
...race, and the third is the most inclusive of them all. Religion is not the creation of a book or priests or governments of institutions. It springs out of the heart of our human kind; it issues from the deep centres of human fears and joys, human terror and helplessness, human aspiration and insight. Its reality and authority are as veritable and undeniable as the experience which produces it is universal and intelligible. Now the minister is set to develop and guide this religious instinct, and his profession becomes, therefore, one of the permanent forms of human activity, independent...