Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This is the condition of Flora Goforth, who must meet not her publisher's deadlines, as she likes to think, but her Maker's, as in her terror-gnawed bones she knows. Flora is a vulgar, bawdy, explosive clown in her 60s, an eternal show girl, who has buried six husbands and who, fingers warty with jewels, is still desperately, greedily, and somehow gallantly grabbing at life in a mountaintop villa in Italy. Indeed, she has three villas, pink, blue and white, all wired up in a walkie-talkie intercom system into which she dictates at all hours...
...control by Moslem Pakistan. But though he had signed preliminary trade and administrative agreements with Pakistan, Kashmir's Hindu maharajah began to hedge. Angered by his failure to accede to Pakistan, hordes of Pakistani "volunteers" swept into Kashmir to establish Pakistan's claim to the land. In terror, the Hindu ruler opted to join India, appealed for immediate military aid. India was happy to respond, airlifted troops into Kashmir to fortify its own claim...
...life sickness and death, suffering and fear were to be his themes. His people could cry out and the sky would seem torn apart. They might wander blankly down a street, eyes sick with anxiety, together but each alone. Few artists have ever recorded as well the cold terror and unrelenting melancholy of a person gripped in the clutches of a paralyzing neurosis. A Munch painting, The Cry, painted in 1893, became an appropriate TIME cover for a story on guilt and anxiety (March...
...report, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating added a biting statement of his own. He called the State Department action "confused, careless and unfair," and declared: "It is in marked contrast to the willingness of the State Department to allow known terror ists and Communists unhampered entry into...
...near for the rebels, for British troops began pouring into Brunei by air. Hawker Hunter jets of the R.A.F. buzzed low over rebel emplacements firing blank 20-mm. cannon shells; many rebel troops fled in terror because they had never before heard the shriek of a jet engine. Other rebels fought on, inflicted substantial casualties on Britain's tough little Gurkha troops. The Gurkhas retaliated by lopping off a few rebel heads. Finally British numbers began to tell and the rebels faded away into the jungle...