Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...distinct disadvantage throughout the West. The adoption of the New Plan examinations, though an excellent step so far as it goes, does not completely cope with the situation, because the mere existence of examinations whose requirements are couched in the formidable language of the Catalogue is enough to strike terror to the hearts of those who are not accustomed to them...
...used in the Franco-Prussian War, but the English first proved their value in the Egyptian and Indian campaigns, the gun at that time consisting simply of a circular collection of barrels, turned by hand. The automatic received its first try-out in the Russo-Japanese War, and such terror did it inspire that the Japanese likened its fire to a continuous rod of iron thrust from the barrel. In the German trenches today there is one machine gun to every six men, while in the United States a whole company has but four guns...
...Workshop will be given in Agassiz House Theatre, Radcliffe, this evening at 8 o'clock. The play the first two nights will be "The Waves of Torre," a one-act piece by Miss Ethel Claire Randall, telling of an Irish fisherman's dread of the sea, the terror being lost, however, when he is called to the aid of a wrecked ship. The scene is the interior of Bhride Senanes cottage on the Island of Torre off the northwest coast of Donegal, Ireland...
...aroused by an appeal to emotional mob spirit, war may come no matter how clearly it can be shown to be their interest and advantage to remain at peace. That in this day of world conflict, with every possibility of this nation being swept off its feet by terror and blind fear, with an unprecedented campaign being waged for military increases, the very closeness of such a vote as last night's is ground for the highest hopes and inspiration...
...mound struggle royal is promised with "Lefty" Herter and "Long Sinister" Wentworth--the reversible southpaw battery succeeding one another with kaleidoscopic rapidity on the hurling slab for the purple fellows with the yellow streaks; and Hall, the terror of Montclair, N. J., or Morris, the grand old man of the Western Plains League, dampening the spheroid for the daily boys. The CRIMSON team will be greatly strengthened by Reynolds, lately released by the Newell Club, who will officiate astern the bat, and hold the would-be pilferers snugly to their pillows. Captain McIntosh of the scholars, will be seen again...