Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Terror. Cosa Nostra is run like a feudal state at war. Its "soldiers," the everyday thugs, are organized into "regimas" and led by "lieutenants." The regimas, in turn, are organized into "families" and bossed by twelve '"capos" (heads), each representing a geographic area, who make up Cosa Nostra's grand council, and to gether are the final arbiters of the syndicate's affairs. Chief among them is convicted Narcotics Racketeer Vito Genovese. From Leavenworth Penitentiary, Genovese still communicates his decisions to the mob through ex-cons or in codes sent by letter or visitors...
...stone-fast monasteries, ability to paint and carve figures in lifelike proportion was forgotten, and faces began to take on fixed expressions of wonder, glee and terror. But "primitive" art is often closer to nature than the well-drawn, finely carved academy pieces of "high culture," and despite their lack of textbook accuracy, the Coptic artists were expressing their real concern; they were painting, carving and weaving the material of their daily lives against the Christian vision...
...television work is a "way of learning" to write that both exhilarates and terrifies him. He is so compulsively chained to his typewriter that he recently decided to consult a psychiatrist to determine what the compulsion is all about. On the other hand, he wakes up every morning in terror, convinced that his writing is "just a trick, and people will get on to it." Television, says he, "is a form not of masochism but of martyrdom. I believe if you survive this, you come out a fantastic human being...
...wall, Khrushchev says the Reds will win because of their own successes. The faith is not fluid, but the expression of it is." Moscow's present "peaceful" line cannot be considered irreversible. What is irreversible, Harriman thinks, is "the freedom from Stalin's kind of terror and the Russians' effort to build a better life for themselves...
...make Liston mad." One night Sonny slapped Clay's face when Cassius taunted him in a casino on the Strip. Just before the fight, Cassius bounced into the ring, solemnly shook Patterson's hand, started for Liston's corner-then threw up his hands in mock terror and dived for the seats. The crowd almost busted laughing. No sooner was Patterson counted out than Clay was back, shaking off cops, grabbing a microphone, proclaiming "That was a disgrace. They should apologize for wasting my time on that farce." At Liston's victory party, Cassius sneered...