Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sight of the dreaded secret police and surrendered 300,000 rubles in money and furs. One victim, finally, put in a timid call to the authorities, to ask if the night visitors were really official. Last week the "secret policemen" who had spread a little incidental terror from Moscow and Leningrad to Kharkov and Stalino were exposed as a gang of criminals and con men headed by one Leon Voskonian...
Standing in the Sun. Since then Salumu has used the gendarmerie to keep Stanleyville in a perpetual state of terror. Fortnight ago he herded all 600 of Stanleyville's whites into an open field where they stood for hours in the broiling sun awaiting an "identity check." Passengers arriving by air were searched on arrival, then forced to stoop down and pick up their wallets and other belongings that Salumu's men had thrown to the ground. Daphne Parks, a consular official of the British embassy, was slapped twice by gendarmes, who then unzipped her dress. Priests...
...Wilde; Caedmon). Richly furrowed and pecan-sweet, Actor Brennan's voice is perfectly flavored for Twain's famed saga of a betting man, "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Ex-Child Actor de Wilde, 18, does equally well by a boy's excitement, awe and terror at the shooting of Boggs as seen and told by Huck Finn...
Part Two describes the reign of terror imposed on Palestine by the ultranationalist cults of violence (Irgun Zvai Leumi, Stern Gang), and culminates in a film version of the famous mass breakout of Acre prison that will be studied for years as a master's thesis on the cinema of escape...
...many Jews are brilliant but also because many are brave. But even though competent historians, in determining who started the civil war, refuse to excuse either side, the film unequivocally blames the Arabs, absolutely absolves the Jews. Then, in chauvinistic frenzy, the picture goes on to sanctify the Jewish terror. Among the principal heroes: a saintly old assassin (David Opatoshu) attached somehow to a Coptic synagogue, a psychotic youth (Mineo) apparently restored to sanity by a regimen of mass murder. The kind of blind hatred that excuses the Jewish terror was also used to excuse the Nazi extermination camps...