Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy referred to complete, as opposed to nuclear, disarmament in vaguer but more rhetorical terms, demanding a "truce to terror" and saying that "together we shall save our planet--or together we shall perish in its flames." John N. Plank '45, assistant professor of Government and an expert on the United Nations, felt that "the propagandist line came through quite clearly there." But Plank added that Kennedy used the General Assembly "precisely as it should be used"--to persuade people rather than hammer out programs...
Snowbound Dark. Despite obvious progress, Siberia continues to evoke terror in European Russia. Moscow University graduates are plunged into despair when ordered to emigrate east of the Urals. Workers and peasants are so reluctant to settle in the virgin lands that the Soviet government must tempt them with tax exemptions, bank credits and free grain...
Huff-puff, huff-puff clackety clack it goes. Puffpuffpuffpuff, faster and faster and louder and louder. The whistle wails, and the monstrous noise comes on and on and on and on, straight at the listener. His eyes pop open, his hands grip the arms of his chair in sweaty terror. His eyebrows shoot up past his hairline. As the final shattering wallop thunders in his head, the train runs right smack over him and he topples backward in a shuddering trance...
...shotguns at the ready. Wirges has been shot at, beaten, and threatened so persistently by anonymous telephone callers that he once sent his wife and four children to live for a while in the com parative safety of Little Rock, 35 miles to the southeast. But the campaign of terror, far from scaring the Democrat's spunky editor and proprietor, has only strengthened his resolve. Said Gene Wirges last week, blooded but unbowed: "I think they...
...dying middle-aged druggist. J. T. Malone, the druggist, is a drab fixture in the small Southern town of Milan who has emptied his life filling prescriptions. His approaching death from leukemia is the biggest thing that ever happened to him. For a time, he and his gnawing terror promise to dominate Clock, but he is destined for a fictional fate worse than death-to become a symbol of the brevity of life and life-in-death. His friend, ancient Judge Clane, is a Claghorn who never made the U.S. Senate but did get to the House of Representatives...