Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...months has fled from village to village the tale of a terror-the massacre of Moslems-30,000, 40,000, 50,000. Facts appear as follows...
Blind flying, where nothing of the ground or horizon can be seen, is the terror of aviation. At the speed of plane flight (100 m.p.h., usually) a pilot loses his sense of balance. At night or in fog, where he cannot orient himself against ground objects, he flies to one side, his wings tilt, the plane goes up, down or, happily, level. He does not know. His instruments go "hay wire." He is helpless. In terror he may try to guide himself. Generally that is useless. Experienced professional pilots, particularly on the night mail routes, often set their planes...
...Those places" were "joints," for in 1880 Kansas had made the ordinary saloon illegal. Thus it was that Carry became the bartenders' terror of the '90s-height, 6 ft.; weight, 180 Ibs.; broad of beam, with hard muscles, calloused hands and beady, defiant eyes. She began by trying to wreck a Medicine Lodge grogshop with an umbrella. In later forays her weapons were bricks and stones wrapped in old newspapers. These she hurled through mirrors, lewd paintings, rows of glassware. With her famed hatchet she chopped up cherry bars, furniture, cash registers, beer kegs. Her battle...
Former dicta have forbidden that this surplus be turned to the completion of the new Athletic Building, whose scrawny frame may be destined to strike terror into the hearts of nearby residents for many months to come. But on the other hand, rumour saith that the immovable hath been moved if only slightly, and that the Corporation may reconsider its previous decisions, and leave the path open to the utilization of the surplus...
...Terror-struck, the peasant blanched to his bristling eyebrows, whipped up his horses, fled across country...