Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...burly firemen, Aguayo seemed like a wounded bird with her thin, angular features, frightened eyes and short silver hair. "My hands! My hands!" she cried. She began to vomit as the ambulance sped toward Santa Marta Hospital, the last "open" emergency room of the night. But her pain and terror were apparently caused by hysteria. The woman was sent home within hours...
Solzhenitsyn claimed that I had understated Stalin's crimes. According to one estimate, 60 million people had died as a result of terror, famine and associated disease. My figure of 10 million deaths in labor camps was too low. I was also wrong to differentiate Stalin from Lenin: corruption and destruction began the day the Bolsheviks seized power, and have continued ever since. It's a mistake to seek a multiparty system; what we need is a nonparty system...
Whoever haunted Sabrina Collins' room in Longstreet Hall had a knack for terror. The black Emory University freshman came home one evening last month to find her teddy bear slashed, her clothes soaked with bleach and NIGGER HANG written in lipstick on the wall. When death threats began arriving in the mail, college officials supplied extra locks and an alarm system. This month, as she got ready to move out, she lifted the rug to find DIE NIGGER DIE written in nail polish on the floor. Sabrina collapsed and was hospitalized for "emotional traumatization...
...years that Europe has been largely at peace, the Middle East has been plunged into war at least nine times. Europe is living proof that the balance of terror works: with so many weapons of mass destruction in so many arsenals, a single bullet fired in anger could touch off Armageddon. Therefore the guns are silent. The Middle East has had the benefit of no such inhibition: there is too much terror and too little balance...
...their shameful and shameless deals, Cambodians were paying a fearful price: hundreds of thousands died between 1970 and 1975, when Cambodia became a theater of the Vietnam War, a million or more (out of a population of 7 million) in the Khmer Rouge's ensuing four-year reign of terror...