Word: terrors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy automatic rifle and put six shots into York and his wife. Two bullets dropped nine-year-old John York as he scrambled from the car and five more hit his 67-year-old grandmother in the back as she got out and started to escape. In blind terror, 13-year-old Ann, the only York in the car still alive, pelted up the lane with lead cracking around her. Hit in the thigh, she managed to keep going until she reached a farmhouse where she sobbed out her story, and named the rifleman...
Fuseli's most ambitious fantasies, such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, led one critic to assert that he "expressed the terror and the evanescence of the world of phantoms, with a power unequaled by any painter that ever lived." His Nightmare (in which a luminous horse's head thrusts between a sleeping lady's bed curtains) was reproduced everywhere, became almost as well-known as Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein. Even to William Blake, who had ten times his genius and only one-tenth his contemporary reputation, Fuseli...
...ablest early leaders of the French Revolution, he was president of the Electors of Paris in 1789 and received the keys of the Bastille from its conquerors after the prison was stormed on July 14. Like many another French revolutionist, however, Moreau fell out with the Genius of the Terror, Robespierre. He and his family put out to sea from Le Havre on Nov. 9, 1793, just 24 hours before the agents of the guillotine arrived to arrest...
...Responsible authorities [in Manchuria] say that Soviet pilots and artillerymen have been in action with Chinese Communist troops . . . Russian soldiers of occupation have been guilty of terror and rape-more than can be told. The Manchuria lao pai hsing [common people] told me: 'Everything lao pai hsing won't do, the Russian ta pi tzu [big noses] have done...
...Terror & Comfort. Lewis throws British understatement to the winds in praise of Macdonald's religious wisdom: "I know hardly any other writer who seems to be closer, or more continually close, to the Spirit of Christ Himself. . . . Nowhere else outside the New Testament have I found terror and comfort so intertwined...