Word: terrorization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just as the Hezbollah and Hamas have arisen to rain terror in Israel, so have splinter groups of the anti-abortion movement formed to perpetrate violence in our own country. With pamphlets entitled "The Army of God" circulating among these people, their rhetoric is only a translation of what Islamic Jihad, another violent fundamentalist group, might publish...
...tragic epic, not a silly melodrama, and therefore much blood must be spilled before whoever is left standing at the end is granted peace and wisdom. That most of the dying results from a bootlegging operation Tristan starts up during Prohibition tends to short-circuit whatever impulses toward terror and pity we might still have. Running hooch in from Canada is not an occupation we usually associate with profound drama, especially when it is centered on a figure who is literally a deadly bore...
...hands of a lesser writer, such a premise might be played simply for suspense and shock. There is plenty of both in Felicia's Journey, but Trevor grounds his effects in utterly plausible details; potential terror seems more terrible when its source is the ordinary...
...tower, the rail terminal, the presidential palace and a few military installations. But the air strikes went badly from the first, hitting residential buildings, dropping flesh-shredding cluster bombs and touching off a worldwide cry of outrage at the high civilian casualties. Some critics accused Yeltsin of trying to terrorize the Chechens with indiscriminate bombing, but military experts do not see it that way. "The bombing," says a U.S. Air Force officer, "doesn't look like terror as much as incompetence. A lot of them can't find the targets they've been assigned...
...Devora Lieberman, a Beth Israel obstretician and current SPH student, outlined what she called "are ongoing nationwide anti-choice campaign of terror and violence...