Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago's Lawndale district on the west side of the city, the dark, slum-speckled streets breed a tale of terror. One night six Negro boys jumped out of the dark and lashed a 69-year-old white man with bicycle chains. Another gang waylaid a 12-year-old white boy in a schoolyard and bludgeoned him. Four white men dragged a Negro from his car, beat and robbed him, then for good measure smashed the car against a pole...
...faith in God as the only force that could reform society. Ever the careful conspirator hedging against the future, Chambers gathered together documents, memos in Hiss's handwriting and microfilm, and gave them to his wife's nephew for safekeeping. Then he and his family fled in terror from Washington and the Communist Party. In 1939, moved by the Russo-German pact that opened the floodgates of World War II, Chambers disclosed the existence of his old spy ring to Adolf A. Berle Jr., then in charge of State Department security. In Witness, Chambers reports that Berle hustled...
...four scattered locations across the U.S. last week, terror struck suddenly. ¶Floating half submerged in a tiny Fairfax County, Va., stream, the nude body of Marta Santa Cruz, 22, was discovered by two teenagers. Marta had apparently been raped, then strangled. Her hands and feet were bound, and flesh scrapings found under her fingernails indicated a desperate struggle with her attacker. Daughter of a retired Bolivian army colonel. Marta worked as a clerk-typist at the Washington, D.C. Hospital Center, was a frequent guest at parties given by Bolivia's Ambassador Victor Andrade. ¶ In North Buffalo...
Last week, on a British-owned farm, 200 workers-victims of the Burumatare syndrome-quit work in terror, refused to return to their jobs in spite of the owner's attempts to reassure them. "Our hearts are different to yours, master," they said. At the suggestion of his African foreman, the farmer painted 200 rubber bands white and slipped one on the wrist of each laborer. Only then did the local natives finally return to work, confident in the power of the white master's juju magic...
...rest, however, I have little but priase. Mr. Britten has skillfully caught the governess's apprehensiveness and growing terror; Peter Quint is magnificently and compellingly evil--particularly in his first wordless and almost muezzin-like wall; and the children sing tunes and the new English music that is Mr. Britten's specialty...