Word: terrorizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Until her divorce last year, Annette LaFrancis was routinely beaten by her husband, a Navy submariner with the rank of chief petty officer. He was eventually convicted of assault, but LaFrancis can never forget how often she feared for her life. Her terror was compounded by six guns he had illicitly stashed in their Navy-owned house in Groton, Conn. "I'd worry that one day he'd flip out and use one on me," she says...
...child molesters, and we are aware of the dread consequences of their acts. On this matter we require no instruction. But a cracked old man, misjudging his powers and the nature of his children? Why yes, we can be moved to vivid identification with him, to pity and terror by his plight. Him we might someday become...
...next day Netanyahu's government announced it would cede no more territory to the Palestinians unless Arafat crushed Hamas. "We can't have a situation in which we are asked to hand over more land at a time when they are not fighting terror," the Prime Minister said. He also threatened to hunt down Hamas operatives in Arafat's jurisdiction, even if that violates the accords. After the bombing, military commanders shuttled to Netanyahu's office, stirring speculation that they were reviewing contingency plans for such raids...
...always a primitive terror to be cast out of the tribe and made to wander as a stranger. Today a famous person--Arnold Schwarzenegger, say, or Sylvester Stallone, those universal action figures whose films require the fewest subtitles and therefore address masses most eloquently in remote cultures--might go anywhere on earth and never be a stranger. Is that desirable? Or a horror? Such planetary recognition may be as dangerous, in a different way, as being an unknown alien once...
...true comparison, of course, is not with Kennedy but with Kennedy's wife. (And consider the passive figure of Mr. Zapruder, his shutter innocently open on the grassy knoll, as opposed to the figure of Mr. Rat, the paparazzo.) But in the immediate aftermath, one experienced the pity and terror associated with a major loss. You felt stunned from nowhere, as if something had veered in out of your blind spot...