Word: terrorizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John Beverly, 42, a Viet Nam veteran, suffers from posttraumatic stress disorder, which includes sudden flashbacks of battlefield terror. Last week two administrative-law judges in Wisconsin awarded Beverly $85,700 in worker's compensation after finding that co-workers at the Miller brewery in Milwaukee preyed on him from 1981 to 1983 by taunting him with loud noises. Beverly claimed that employees popped milk cartons, broke beer bottles and even set off fireworks to see his reaction. Helpless in the grip of the disorder, he would throw himself to the floor. Eventually he became so anxious, the judges found...
...merely the work of "misguided" people but also that of a truly "rebellious clique." The second version also contained approving references to the "open policy," allowing Chinese ties to the outside. Said a senior Asian diplomat in Beijing: "The line to the world is reassurance. To China, it is terror...
...modern industrial culture becomes more visual, its images more transient, it has a hard time learning. It too is constantly surprised. Take the shock with which news of the Chinese crackdown on the democracy movement was received. Given Communism's 70-year history, marked by repeated reigns of repressive terror, only a forgetting culture could have been so taken by surprise. The week after the Tiananmen massacre, Hungary, which has a harder time forgetting, staged a moving reburial of the men executed for leading the 1956 rebellion. The commemoration reminded us that Western Communism in its 40th year produced precisely...
...freedom and democracy in one of Moscow's East European satellites. Nagy and four of his top aides were executed in 1958 after a secret trial and buried in an unmarked grave. Earlier this year, their bodies were exhumed for a formal, cathartic reburial. "Never again should such a terror occur," Miklos Vasarhelyi, Nagy's former press secretary, told the crowd. "We hereby close once and for all a tragic, painful epoch to be able to open a new page in the history of our nation...
After the speeches, the coffins were reinterred in the Rakoskeresztur cemetery in the same plot from which they had been exhumed. A sixth coffin was lowered empty into the ground in symbolic memory of more than 200 other Hungarians who were executed in the terror that followed the uprising...