Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Terror and Torture. The Navy was saving the Pueblo's story for the court, which is expected to convene at Coronado, Calif., later this month, and it ordered the crew to say nothing. Meanwhile, it awarded ten Purple Hearts to crewmen wounded in the high-seas hijacking. Last week, too, after Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford demanded an investigation of the ugly tales of beatings inflicted on the Pueblo's men, the Navy permitted two sailors to give a public accounting of terror and torture as prisoners of North Korea...
...chief tormentors was a North Korean colonel nicknamed "The Bear," who worked over Hayes and the rest of the crew. "One day they treat you nice, and they are your big brothers," Hayes explained. "The next day, for no reason, it would be the opposite. Everyone was kept in terror, waiting to be beat. That was the worst part-there was nothing you could do but sit there and wait...
...retinas locked and I slid down the tunnel of his eyes, and I could feel him walking around in my skull and we both began to laugh. And there it was, that dark moment of fear and distrust, which could have changed in a second to become hatred and terror. But we made the love connection. The flicker in the dark. Suddenly, the sun came out in the room and I felt great and I knew he did too. High Priest, by Timothy Leary...
Beware of Tyrone Guthrie bearing Greek gifts. The pity and terror of tragedy are alien to his impish nature. He has an irresistible urge to inject modernity into a classic through props, stage tricks and character stunts rather than to extract what is timelessly significant in the play. He is more like an M.C. introducing novelty acts than a director exploring drama. All of these traits mar his direction of the Minnesota Theater Company's The House of Atreus. The production is ambitious in intent but puny in passion, execution and depth...
...London Sunday Times on the country's postinvasion mood. This time, no longer an admirer of the late Soviet dictator, he returned with a chilling account of a resurgence of Stalinism. Wrote Hardy last week: "The old methods of administrative pressure, blanket censorship and even naked terror are on their way back...