Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians being panicked by their government and press? Of course not. Are they being urged to go underground and await the conqueror in terror? Of course not. The American press is playing right into the hands of the Communists by publishing such cravenness...
...story house in San Francisco's Sunset district, they quietly wiped the marks off; when they began to get obscene telephone calls, Bowman simply hung up, saying "wrong number, wrong number." The Bowmans did not realize then that the "pranks" were only the beginning of months of terror in which their spirits would gradually decay and their happiness disintegrate under the pressure of an unseen force...
...promises that even in that distant day when "the state will wither away," the party will remain. Through such devices as citizens' courts, voluntary "people's militia," and a reorganized political police whose new role is that of "friend and helper," Khrushchev has effectively replaced full-scale terror with the Orwellian technique of "mass discipline...
Charles E. Osgood, professor of Psychology and Communications at the University of Illinois, explained that the patterns established for reciprocal arms build-up offer hope for a reduction of terror, because the great power systems are geared toward response...
Testimony to Terror. Balaguer himself can testify to the terror-and its reward after 31 years of service to Trujillo. A bright lad from a middle-class family, he graduated from law school at 22 and quickly understood where the future lay under an iron-fisted dictator. Finding a job as a government prosecutor, he was the perfect functionary-meek, efficient, trusted. By 1936, Balaguer was under secretary for the presidency and the little man around the palace to perform odd jobs. He went on from diplomatic missions (to Colombia, Venezuela, Honduras, Mexico) to Cabinet posts (Education, External Affairs...