Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old Guyana Agricultural Workers Union, Jagan sent his union out on strike at the beginning of February. Though the GAWU is smaller than the anti-Jagan Manpower Citizens Association, which speaks for 60% of the colony's 25,000 sugar workers, it makes up in terror what it lacks in size. Its men dynamited irrigation aqueducts, pay offices and watch posts on 41 cane properties, put thousands of acres of unharvested cane to the torch, and bombed 33 homes of anti-Jagan Negroes and East Indians. Gangs of strikers waged pitched battles with nonstriking workers, injuring more than...
Stavros has a fezfull of motives for leaving his home. His people, the Greeks, live in terror and humiliation under despotic Turkish rule. When his weak-kneed father decides to move the family to Constantinople, where there is less danger, Stavros has already resolved to quit Turkey and travel to the United States. As the eldest son, he is sent on ahead to invest the household treasures in the capital. And the hardships begin. The boy kills a shiftless Turk who has robbed him, loses a second cache in a brothel, and nearly dies in a raided meeting of revolutionaries...
...though he stumbles too often in a few of his lines. But his voice covers the range between rage and self-pity easily, and his movements are the most effective in the show. His best moment--and the play's--is the death scene, where he communicates fully the terror of his murder. He does justice to a scene which, said Charles Lamb, "moves pity and terror beyond any scene, ancient and modern, with which I am acquainted...
...COMMUNIST CHINA. "Peking incites and actively supports the aggression in Southeast Asia in violation of the Geneva accords of 1962. Peking attacked India and occupies a position from which it continues to threaten the sub continent of South Asia. Peking is attempting to extend its tactics of terror and subversion into Africa and Latin America. In other words, Peking flouts the first condition for peace: leave your neighbors alone...
There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats...