Word: terrors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tramping ponderously into a crowded congressional caucus room, John spoke of death and terror in the bowels of the earth. When he mentioned the widows and children of Centralia's dead, his voice sank to a whisper. He cried: "If we must grind up human flesh and bone in the industrial machine . . . then before God I assert that those who consume coal owe them and their families protection. ... I care not who in heaven or hell oppose it. . . ." Roaring, whispering or hammering the table, he always swiveled back to his target-Krug...
...everywhere, the Russians rule through political terror. A refugee's testimony: "I know it sounds funny to you, but the fact is that to us who escaped to Poland, that country today seems, by comparison, the most wonderfully free, democratic country you could dream of. This is how the MGB (formerly the NKVD) works in our cities: every block is controlled by an MGB boss with his office on the premises. Every house has an MGB informer. The informers control each other. One of them goes to the other and says: 'It's too bad about...
...crew shouldered the straps of oxygen tanks, pulled on masks and walked like Martians to the big cage elevator. It began its 540-ft. descent. After that, every four hours, night & day, a new rescue crew went down. Every four hours a black-faced, exhausted gang came up and terror hung in the tipple as women studied their faces. After a while bodies came up, too, each one on a stretcher, and each covered, neatly, but not warmly, by a blanket...
Then over the waves of ether To fill their sweet long dreams Come tales of terror and torture And 17 kinds of screams...
...based on Paul's words in Romans 13: "For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God. Whosoever therefore resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God; and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation. For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil."* Civil authority, however evil or foolish, said Luther, must be opposed only when it encroaches on the spiritual realm: "And you must know that from the beginning of the world there was rarely a prince who was wise and even more rarely...