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Word: terrorizing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Steven. When he was babysitting for us he'd resort to creative torture. One time he came into the bedroom with his face wrapped in toilet paper like a mummy. He peeled off the paper layer by layer and threw it at us. He was a delight, but a terror. And we kept coming back for more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: I Dream for a Living | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...silhouettes of arms and heads and tentacles. I liked being scared. It was very stimulating. In my films I celebrate the imagination as a tool of great creation and a device for the ultimate scream, and even as a kid I liked pushing myself to the brink of terror and then pulling back. In the morning I was the bravest guy -- little seven-year-old Steven walking around the closet, or talking to the trees, saying, "I'm not afraid of you." But once night fell, all bets were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Autobiography of Peter Pan | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

...event has demonstrated the bizarre consequences of that fact quite as dramatically as the TWA hijacking. There, under laboratory conditions, journalism met terror, in a pure culture, uncontaminated by civilization. The results are not encouraging. Terror needed a partner in crime to give the event life. The media, television above all, obliged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Looking Evil Dead in the Eye | 7/15/1985 | See Source »

SINCE THE HIJACKING of TWA flight 847 first flashed across American television screens, a chorus of critics have charged the media with complicity in terror. Blinded by prestige, profit, and their own power, U.S. journalists allowed themselves to be exploited by murderers and extortionists, the charge reads...

Author: By David S. Hilzenrath, | Title: Caveat Emptor | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

...want, perhaps even need real men (women need not apply) who can stand up to the ruthless terror tactics of Islamic fanatics, outwit and ultimately outgun the miscreants who choose to try to besmirch this nation's honor...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: No Heroics | 7/9/1985 | See Source »

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