Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they realize how devastating the unrestricted warfare of powerful unions and large employers associations is likely to be. From the only other alternative, that of allowing the government to play a larger and larger part in the regulation particularly of wage bargains, they recoil in the same sort of terror before the unknown felt by liberal economists when they contemplate a broad program of industrial and agricultural regulation. Whether the alternative their attitude implies is any more desirable or even possible, they seldom stop to consider in any detail...
...nger said: "The Communist Party in Germany had been working for a long time to gain power and awaited only a favorable constellation. The court takes the view that Van der Lubbe was a Communist and still is a Communist. Decidedly, this Reichstag fire was no act of individual terror but an act of mass terror which was designed to be the overture to a general strike and a revolutionary movement...
...Graduate. Gene Vidal's critics in the industry cannot decide whether he is a wild man or a babe-in-the-woods. Like most New Dealers, he regards his job as a problem in economics. He is eager for results, impatient of procedure. And mistakes hold no more terror for him than for his President, whom he hero-worships. Early in his career he made two mistakes, two smart moves...
...good thing to do. Mr. Holt possesses the characteristics of masculinity, and very little else; consequently, this side of his nature should be played up as much as possible. The calming down, however, has not been carried too far; he is still bull-necked Jack, the terror among strong men. The plot, appropriately enough, deals with a steel mill, in which jack is at liberty to romp with the hunkies. It is probably the closest approach to the good old Horatio Alger song and dance that the Hollywood demons have given us, and contains most of the elements, in addition...
Never before this season has the team worked together as it did last Saturday. Everything seemed to click, and the thought of Well's two passes early in the game kept the Eli secondaries in mortal terror all afternoon. The verdict of the stands with regard to the team, the coaches and Danny Wells was "All is forgiven" and critics paid high tribute to the eleven which has been the favorite object of censure this fall...