Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...series of cliff-hanging crises, from Suez in 1956 to last year's collapse of the United Arab Republic, when Syria violently withdrew from the coalition with Egypt. Nasser was so shaken by that event that he allowed his secret police to institute a virtual reign of terror. He pulled out of this scare about four months ago, just in time to avoid a serious political reaction against him. With the help of massive economic aid from the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund, he has made another remarkable recovery, is finally facing the pressing problems which must...
...advisers-most notably the use of helicopters-have begun to show results. The Viet Cong is now suffering nearly twice as many casualties as the South Vietnamese and the amount of captured Viet Cong equipment is rising. Viet Cong defections are on the increase, and Viet Cong terror tactics against the Montagnards (mountain tribesmen), who have been indifferent to Diem's government, have caused thousands of them to pour down into government territory to volunteer for military training...
Danville, Ky., Pioneer Playhouse: No. 4 in a series of ten new plays: A Terror Since September by Chicago Engineer R. C. Lesser, whose blueprints will be used as decor in this psychological drama...
Lonely Are the Brave. Grim, stinking trailer trucks, the mechanistic behemoths of progress, thunder blindly along the highway. Near the white line dividing traffic, a high-strung horse skitters, rears and neighs in the kind of wild-eyed terror and anguish that Picasso gives to the horse in Guernica. The symbolic question is clear: Is the untamed free spirit an outlaw that must learn to toe the white lines of the modern world or perish...
...most potently fascinating in Jungle is also most subtle: U.S.-born Director Joseph Losey's vision of the world of crime as a self-contained universe without external points of reference. Normal society judges and humanizes itself from ethical and spiritual vantage points that are above society. The terror of criminal society, as Losey presents it, is that it is a kingdom of one-eyed men, whose lack of ethical depth perception prevents them from seeing, knowing, or redeeming themselves...