Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...partly responsible for the 'reign of terrer' in Nazi Germany," said Lord Dudley Marley, Vice-Chairman of the British House of Lords, and Chairman of the World Committee to Aid the Victims of the Nazi Regime. "We must not be fooled by Nazi censorship into thinking that the terror is over, for the torture is more brutal and there are more deaths from cruel treatment today than there were a year...
...earlier Erskine Caldwell, Georgia-born author, who wrote Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre, novels dealing with the mudsills of Georgia's white society, started the rumpus by writing an article for the Communist New Masses, relating much the same facts, charging that a reign of terror for Negroes was afoot, and adding...
...Bucharest last week everyone was in terror of the Iron Guard. Had not a blue-swastikaed youth assassinated Premier Ion Duca (TIME, Jan. 8)? Had not another youngster burst in upon the Public Prosecutor as he was eating breakfast to scream: "I was an accomplice in Duca's assassination. Arrest me! Do your worst. Christ and Rumania!"? All Bucharest believed last week that the "Death List" of prominent Rumanians marked for assassination by the 200 terrorists of the Iron Guard was headed by M. Titulescu with Premier Tatarescu about half way down. It was a terrible time for Rumania...
...eleven desperadoes who fled the Kansas State Penitentiary last May, nine had been killed or jailed when the tenth was trapped last week in a small house at Shawnee, Okla. He was Wilbur Underbill, known as the "Lone Wolf" and the "TriState Terror" for his killings and robberies in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri...
Shawnee, Oklahoma City and Federal police caught the "Terror" in his underwear, preparing to retire with his bride. An officer stuck his head in the window and called: "Stick 'em up, Wilbur!" At that Wilbur grabbed a gun, fired through the window. The police returned with the opening rounds of a 140-shot fusillade. Mrs. Underbill got no more than a bad scare, but a beauty parlor operator in the next room was hit in the stomach, later died. Underbill fled from the house, fell once, disappeared. He was found at dawn, bleeding from back, neck...