Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Against Austria's Nazi terror the Austrian Government struck back. Nazis to the number of 1,142 were arrested, 15 of them, German liaison officers directly responsible to Adolf Hitler, were expelled, 37 others were charged with high treason, the rest were cooled in jail for a couple of clays, then released...
...flapped at the sky. A shower of burning celluloid, floating down in blazing strips and flakes, fell on the screaming mob of men, women and children for a quarter of a mile around. Those who had not been knocked senseless by the impact of the explosion, surged in terror to the river bank, plunged into the water to quench their burning hair and clothes. Mrs. Latone, aflame from head to foot, leaped into the river, sank and was drowned. Then came a second blast. The shower of burning celluloid thickened into a roll of flame, set nine buildings alight. Perilous...
...convict who pinioned Warden Prather was Wilbur Underhill, "The Tri-State Terror" who had pleaded guilty to killing a man in Kansas (which has no death penalty) to avoid being extradited to Oklahoma, where he had killed two others. Three of his four years in the Kansas penitentiary had been spent in solitary confinement. He and Harvey Bailey-leader of the $2,000,000 Lincoln (Neb.) Bank & Trust Co. holdup in 1930, who was finally caught while golfing in Kansas City-directed what happened next. They threatened to kill the warden, "pile up the guards in heaps," unless they...
...poor woman was passing by a street with her two years baby by the hand when a bomb exploded and turned the baby into pieces? Do you know that often bombs explode inside theatres hurting the public? That is the way of opposition. They do this "politic" (?) to put terror in the souls, not letting live anybody. Do you know that in Miramar Reparto a bomb exploded killing the chief of police, a lieutenant of the army and two citizens that were standing nearby? That bomb was put also by the opposition to "put terror in the souls...
...another king had solved the problem of a gift rhinoceros. In the 16th Century, Portuguese explorers captured one in India, brought it back to their monarch. His delight at owning the first rhinoceros ever seen in Europe soon turned to dismay, for the animal was a grunting, intractable terror. From motives now hidden by the centuries, the King of Portugal hit on a solution-he would send the rhino to the Pope. Happily he clapped the brute on a vessel bound for Rome. But en route the rhino, disdainful of King & Pope, provided its own denouement. Running amok, it battered...