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Word: terrorizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bicycles are both silent and deadly, a menace to pedestrians and a terror to drivers, yet they have proven to be one of the most efficient ways for getting around Harvard Square. And the motor scooter, once an object for the adventurous rich, has become quite democratic and, one might say, even common. But both of these vehicles have been snubbed in University policy, or perhaps merely buried beneath the more weighty matter of parking...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bicycle Stand | 10/24/1958 | See Source »

...declared that Americans have become members of "domesticated wolfpacks." Vidal continued, "We have lost the picture of solitary man standing up against other men and the facts of his creation." Not only unable to stand alone, Americans are also affected by "a tolerance so profound it is akin to terror," which stultifies the artist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Satirist Vidal States Americans 'Ripe for Dictatorship' in Speech | 10/18/1958 | See Source »

...fighting spread from Algeria's mountains to its rich coastal strip and bustling cities, and as terror bombing deliberately sought innocent victims, the French army in response resorted to measures that outraged the world. When the rebels in August 1955 massacred 70 European settlers, including women and children, the French, adopting the doctrine of "collective responsibility," razed ten Algerian villages. In a report, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: The Reluctant Rebel | 10/13/1958 | See Source »

...kept up the barrage of hate: "The U.A.R. will be unable to prevent the people of Jordan from battling the loss of their independence after years of martyrdom at the hands of a king who is a deviationist and a traitor and who submerged Jordan in a wave of terror...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Lack of Presence | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Mason gave a suave and perfectly controlled performance, such as we often get from the best British actors and have usually got from Mason himself in his many movies from Seventh Veil through Julius Caesar to Cry Terror...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: A Summer Drama Festival: Tufts, Wellesley, Harvard | 9/18/1958 | See Source »

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