Word: terrorize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...obtaining any infectious diseases, bacteria, or germs." The criminal complaint that cited the prohibition also noted that Harris had told an unidentified group last summer that he planned to release bubonic-plague germs at a New York City subway station. Tabloids in Manhattan promptly blared headlines like SUBWAY PLAGUE TERROR and FEDS NAB 2 IN TOXIC TERROR...
...right now. They assume that if he gets nasty and tries to attack again, the U.S. will slap him down. But they are skittish about provoking a sleeping beast and fear he might retaliate. They don't trust Saddam's judgment under bombardment, assuming that he could use his terror weapons as a last resort. A Jordanian official says, "You don't poke a lion...
...Soviets found to their chagrin that "reform communism" is an oxymoron, and since coercion and state terror were the only gluing mechanism of the USSR, any reform experiment meant to give their socialism a "human face" was bound to destroy the very pillars of that system. It was the Czechs' and Slovaks' attempts to make sense of an alien ideology during 1968, however, and its eventual crushing by Soviet hardware, that infected the Soviet Union's politics 20 years later, leading to the sensational death of a bloody tyranny...
...bombing, of course, had causes and consequences that went beyond the lives of the victims. For years the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth had led protests against segregation in Birmingham. Eventually, he called on King for help, and the demonstrations intensified. Robert Chambliss responded, hoping his act of terror, the 21st bombing in Birmingham since 1956, would leave blacks begging for segregation. In fact, the blast energized the civil rights movement. Lee's eloquent film does justice to the young martyrs and to those who guaranteed that the girls' deaths, while tragic, would not also be meaningless...
...WEDNESDAY Can the "Canadian Air Force," led by Nicolas Fontaine, fly away with aerials skiing? The ladies' figure-skating short program: 2 min. 40 sec. of technical terror...