Word: terrorizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Gibbering with terror, the unpatriotic storekeepers were flung prostrate on the floor before Anti-Japan Association "judges," kowtowing and howling for mercy. The "judges" imposed and actually collected "fines" up to $10,000 Mex. ($2,500) for the "crime" of selling Japanese goods. Convicted shopkeepers who said they could not pay were kicked back into Anti-Japan Association jails, kept there on persuasive starvation rations. This queer kind of justice, flagrantly illegal in every way, was everywhere upheld by Chinese public opinion, the opinion of one-fourth of mankind...
...from Peiping and Mukden over the Trans-Siberian Railway last week, Upton Close, modern Oriental historian, told the New York Times correspondent : "Foreigners in Mukden agree that the Japanese attack [TIME, Sept. 28 ct seq.] was premeditated, unprovoked and carried out with extreme ruthlessness for the purpose of striking terror among Chinese forces everywhere. . . . The Japanese intend to colonize Manchuria...
...looked on complacently as the Anti-Chinese Society, backed by local authority, gave orders for the expulsion of all Chinese from his province by Sept. 5. The adjoining states of Sinaloa and Chihuahua issued similar edicts. Chinese grocers had no time to dispose of their property but fled in terror. The Mexican wholesale chain-store, Juan Lung-tain & Co. and Fong qui Co. lost over $1,000,000 each. Long lines of fugitives formed at the border...
...terror of the Boise Basin's greatest natural disaster was added a new. worse terror: pyromaniacs. Behind a fire-fighting crew Leaped a fresh, incendiary blaze, nearly trapping the crew. Other fires broke out. Governor C. Ben Ross proclaimed a state of insurrection, despatched national guardsmen to the region. Forty-five "undesirables" were ejected. Next day three counties were under martial law, all civil functions at a standstill while 6,000 men fought the flames, prayed for rain to help them do what they could not do alone...
...list grew from a thing of no importance to an inexplicable, spiteful terror as the San Pedro pounded into a blow off the Virginia coast. Thereafter the San Pedro became not a machine of wood and metal but a personification, headstrong and invincible, created to kill 400 people. She bucked and danced and cracked. She reduced her passengers to impotent lumps of frightened flesh. She crushed from the firm officers who commanded her all energy and initiative, leaving behind the hulls of men who only knew that they must obey Captain Clendening. She made of able Captain Clendening...