Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation demanded supreme loyalty from its citizens, insisted on its superiority over other nationalities, fostered pride in the national character and destiny. Carried too far, these convictions played a part in World War I and in a perversion of nationalism, loosed the Nazi terror on the world, piling the earth with corpses...
...statement that Hitler had "stricken the world with astonishment and admiration," formed a Danish Free Corps to fight the Russians, and remained in power until 1943, when the Nazis were forced to appoint a military governor; his explanation was that he collaborated to spare his country from Nazi terror, and though he did not go to prison, his countrymen never forgave...
...with Lady Renison keeping a close personal eye on the liquor bills). He is particularly disliked by Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, who will probably be independent Kenya's first ruler. In 1960, opposing Jomo's release from detention as a ringleader of the 1952"59 Mau Mau terror, Renison warned that Kenyatta would lead the country to "darkness and to death...
Terrible Secret. The Nazis were not the only terror loose in the world. There was something else that only the physicists suspected. With their new mathematical tools they had been delving deep into atomic secrets, and they had come to realize that atomic nuclei hold enormous stores of potentially destructive energy...
...everyone felt that what was happening onstage was impossible. Now we know that these things, and worse, are possible in reality." Where audiences once cowered in fear, they started to whinny. But for 20 years, the management held off the inevitable by adding sex and comedy to the basic terror...