Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Bolsheviks had seized power in 1917, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin filled out a bureaucratic questionnaire. For occupation, he wrote "man of letters." So it was that a son of the Russian intelligentsia, a radical straight from the pages of Dostoyevsky's novel The Possessed, became the author of mass terror and the first concentration camps ever built on the European Continent...
...failure of the "international community" to act quickly enough in the Rwandan genocide: "All over the world there were people like me sitting in offices, day after day after day, who did not fully appreciate the depth and the speed with which you were being engulfed in this unimaginable terror...
...other institutions of the cold war era that are slowly being laid bare, we see both evil and ineptitude. For all its terror, the Sovereignty Commission often seemed like a band of Klanstone Kops. Investigators were flummoxed by the race of a baby with a light complexion and dark, curly hair. They railed hilariously at "beatniks" and "Castroites" and sought to boycott sponsors of integrationist entertainers such as Lena Horne and Marlon Brando...
...XF11, as the scientists so imaginatively named our space Kevorkian. It made a reservation. We were provided the exact date of arrival: Oct. 26, 2028. A Thursday. Gives you time to clear some space on your calendar, pencil in the appointment. Note to Self: Thursday--run amuck in sheer terror before being blown to smithereens along with everyone and everything I've ever known and loved...
Which made him something of an anomaly. Outside the U.S. the 1930s was an era of dictatorship and, increasingly, of death. In the Soviet Union millions perished in the Ukraine famine of 1932-33 and the Great Terror of 1936-38. Hitler, meanwhile, was ending German unemployment largely by building a war machine that had to be turned loose eventually--and was, on Sept...