Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your article "Battle Over Schools": When pressure from a certain religious denomination can strike such terror in the minds and hearts of our governmental leaders that they feel compelled to alter their legislation as this sect so desires, can we, as Americans, truly say that in this country the church and state are separate...
Fusion. In the 14 years of this global war it never wanted, the U.S. has used a number of key words to explain its defense philosophy: containment, deterrence, massive retaliation, balance of terror, limited war, etc. But somehow it has given short shrift to the key word "win." The omission was strange, for if the last years proved anything, they proved that nothing less than winning would serve as a defense philosophy against the Soviets' clear declaration of undeclared...
...French Revolution a retrospective blessing as a Good Thing-Lafayette and all that. The heirs of the French Enlightenment behaved at times like Mau Mau. Parts of butchered bodies were carried on pikes through the streets, and children played in the gutters with severed heads, and in the official Terror the carnage reached a truly modern scale (1,285 deaths at the guillotine in 45 days in Paris alone...
...appealing picture, "but one that can hardly stand the light of Soviet day." The secret police are still active, "still watching and writing things down." in case Khrushchev ever decides to restore the atmosphere of terror. And in the past two years, "the Soviet state has unsheathed a new weapon" of oppression, an imitation of Communist China's technique of using neighborhood vigilantes to enforce conformity. "By the vote of a neighborhood or block meeting assembled and dominated by Party members, any 'unproductive' member of society can be expelled from his place of residence and ordered...
...swallow last week. They had accepted an increased political role for the Africans in the hopes that moderates would come to power and learn gradually the art of governing. But after eight years in prison and exile, extremist Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the organizer of the Mau Mau terror, proved himself once again the most powerful man in Kenya...