Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduced tough, husky members of her old smuggling family into the Prince's household, obtained titles or good marriages for them, drove out the Prince's faithful old servants. She used her great strength to throw things around in her fits of rage, keeping the household in terror. She planted several of her lovers, all great, beefy, stalwart fellows, around the Prince, so that all his movements were reported to her. The aging de Condé, feeble, crippled, harried night & day, was nagged, abused, tormented, once appeared with a badly bruised eye, once screamed that Sophie was trying...
Today 85, but still taking his setting-up exercises every morning, Connaught has been a holy terror all his life to every regiment he has honored by inspection. Unlike Nephew George V, whose object on such occasions is to have everything go off smoothly, Uncle Arthur feels it is his solemn duty to find rusty bayonets, loose buttons and noses with a whiff of liquor on them. Of a certain colonel the Duke once said, "He is just able to walk straight. That is sober enough for a civilian but very drunk for a soldier!" One of Field Marshal...
...Terror to Overthrow Capitalism Complete Disregard of Laws Suggested
...seizure of power by the Bolsheviks does the narrative darken, become more ominous. Then casualty lists, accounts of atrocities replace the accounts of the first enthusiastic confusion. Maintaining an unflinching detachment, Author Chamberlin holds no person or party responsible, betrays indignation only when writing of the Red and White Terror and the execution of the Tsar and his family...
...result, many of the innocents of former days are now quaking in their shoes. They have instilled their terror into those who have not had official conferences. Combined with magic of that word, scholarship, all these young instructors are scurrying to libraries and stacks where the implements of research are found...