Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, that the unilateralism Cousins supports results from the frightened thinking that would inaugurate a policy of disarmament without taking into account the demands of international politics. The Party Conference members, and to some extent the electorate which they are supposed to represent, have now translated their increasing terror of atomic weapons into an acceptance of this line. Despite the conference's acceptance of the Cousins Policy, though the majority of Englishmen have never supported such thinking, nor are they ever likely to. The conference may have gone over to unilateralism, as the London Times remarked, but the Labour movement...
...decisive in shaping the United Nations into something more than an arena for propaganda cock fights at a time when something more was desperately needed. They will say that he strengthened the only positive deterrent to war in a world where the peace was a consensus of terror...
...that he be transferred "to other duty," and Navy Secretary Forrestal was only dissuaded from retiring the Navy's No. 1 popular hero by the argument that to do so would boost enemy morale. Battered tin cans on Okinawa radar picket duty fought "to survive against the flaming terror of the kamikazes roaring out of the blue like the thunderbolts that Zeus hurled at bad actors in the days of old." And to take Iwo Jima as a perch for fighters escorting B-29 attacks on Honshu, the Navy's land-fighting arm fought what General Holland...
...shock of the war had left a different imprint upon everyone it touched. The only real point of contact between the French woman and the Japanese architect lies in their hatred of the war, a hatred arising from two completely different ideas of what the war was. Abject terror, however, is the overwhelming constituent of both views, and Hiroshima Mon Amour, is above anything else, an attempt to instill that terror in a populace which has built the new Hiroshima and has forgotten, or never experienced the destruction...
...each more frenzied and more sinister than the last. The climax was a massive demagogic stunt: an invitation to all Cubans (who have no representative government) to take part in a "People's Assembly" in Havana's Civic Plaza, where, in the style of the French revolutionary terror, they could roar approval of proposed new measures...