Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...born of a dark arithmetic: fear rises exponentially. One whisper can undo a city. The very group that gave us the word assassin--a secret band of loyalists gathered around Hasan i Sabbah, the "Old Man of the Mountain," in Persia 900 years ago--mastered the basic law of terror: that even the smallest threat can ripple out to touch those a thousand miles away. Iago gave us the evidence: plant uncertainty in a shaky mind, and suspicion spreads like blood across a handkerchief...
Beginning with the bombing of a U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia, continuing with the suspected terrorist involvement in the downing of TWA Flight 800 and culminating in the bombing of the Atlanta Olympics, the rash of recent acts of terror has made many American citizens question just how safe they really...
...rightfully so. Joseph's melodious voice reflects a variety of emotions as well as a wide range of musical talent. From enchanted protege to frightened secret lover to, finally, enraged victim, her version of Christine emits a perfect balance of both weakness and strength, and both rapture and terror...
...waters too is an unuttered promise, a diamond ring to accompany a proposal to a lover who must now long for the rest of her life. The miasma off the beaches of New York was the cruelest of elements, mixing the memory and desires of the dead with the terror and fears of the living...
...theory" worn like a reluctant fig leaf. Yet by Friday, there were indications that the Federal Government was weighing a decision to order stringent security directives not before seen in peacetime to all U.S. airlines, which would leave little doubt that the fall of TWA Flight 800 was deliberate terror. If the plane was sabotaged, the disaster becomes America's third milestone on a forced march into a demonic dimension, even as the country had been preparing to soar to Olympic heights. If the 230 who died last week were murdered, then the toll of terror is escalating precipitously...