Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Paducah or Springfield or Littleton, there is no crack FBI team waiting around the block. The crisis falls to local officers who are more like SWAT reservists, training together once in a while and spending the rest of their days minding what is often a sleepy suburban community -- until terror flares. They do their best; certainly the team that waded into hell last Tuesday saved hundreds of young lives. Can all of America's cops be ready for the worst to happen at any time? Probably not. But Shannon thinks if the apparent epidemic of school violence...
...Arachne's Story," one of the most profoundly unsettling poems in the book, Hollander describes the terror of art overtaking life and becoming more real than life itself, turning life into a void emptier even than art. Describing an image in a Arachne's web, Hollander claims "That image of her seemed, for too long a moment,/To be even more real than she was herself." Searching for the deepest realm of truth, he moves into layers of representation, "the metaphor within the metaphor,/The thing itself, that very thing" and finds himself caught in a downward spiral of artifice...
Mason cited what she called the "guerilla warfare" nature of abortion opponents, some of whom use domestic terror tactics to create an environment to endanger women's rights, as evidence of such violence...
Mason cited what she called the "guerilla warfare" nature of abortion opponents, through domestic terror tactics to create an environment to endanger women's rights, as evidence of such violence...
...afraid to tell her story. Other survivors who have come out to the Harvard administration have had their experiences invalidated and belittled. Your friend isn't going to tell anyone, and maybe she will never get to vocalize what she has to live every day: the horror, the terror, of her rape...