Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...listened to Sergeant Delma Stanfill bark out the basic facts about a gas mask. At the end of the drill, after they had practiced donning the mask, another sergeant tested them by dropping smoke and tear gas grenades near by. About 20 of the basic trainees bolted in terror for the woods. In the past, trainees have cried for their mothers. But, after this first day of panic, most of the trainees complete the tough, eight-week course with flying colors, move on for further instruction to the three training divisions of the Strategic Army Force...
...deny that the reprehensible act that almost cost the life of one of the leaders of Western civilization deserved sanction. But it is not fair that the punishment should continue after the death of the culprit." He excused his countrymen for being "half-crazed after three decades of terror," and then pleaded for an end to the punitive economic sanctions imposed against his country by the Organization of American States last year...
screaming meernies. n. extreme and intolerable terror or nervous hysteria: JITTERS. "about two jumps ahead of the screaming meemies...
...Terror of Black. To turn students into something more than what Pace calls "finger wigglers," group teachers plunge their students quickly into harmony, ear training, sight reading and improvisation instead of emphasizing recital pieces and finger drills. "It's like teaching a child to swim before he gets afraid of the water," says Pace. "Most children get middle C-itis by playing only a sea of white keys for so long. They're terrified of black keys. They think that any composer who uses sharps and flats is just being mean...
What John F. Kennedy hoped to get across was a simple, eloquent thought: "Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace... I pledge you every effort this nation possesses. I pledge you that we shall neither commit nor provoke aggression, that we shall neither flee nor threaten the use of force, that we shall never negotiate out of fear and never fear to negotiate...