Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cheyenne, Wyo., the "Ghost Patrol," which in bedraggled skull & crossbones regalia had been terrorizing the community, was unmasked as nine pint-sized hoodlums (aged nine to 14). In court they told Judge Walter Phelan that their juvenile reign of terror had been inspired by ABC's radio program the Green Hornet. The judge recommended spankings for each culprit and ordered a 5:30 curfew, with radios off while the Green Hornet...
...Window. Razor-edged suspense and terror as felt through the pulse of a tenement kid; with Bobby Driscoll (TIME...
...summer wears away; the Polish Corridor becomes the hottest spot in Europe. A frantic cable comes from Jimmy's mother. An old terror returns to him: he may have another epileptic seizure any day. But before he does, the Forces of history converge on Mell and kill Max Divver, their disillusioned celebrant, as he is making a last confused and furious effort to acquire personal dignity...
...that he is engaged in a witch hunt, he points to the FBI's record. If only 91 out of 2,597,000 Government employees checked by the FBI have been discharged for disloyalty, he argues, the FBI can hardly be accused of drumming up a reign of terror...
...Irish clergy, he thinks, have appeared not to reciprocate the people's regard. In explanation, he offers the fact that the Catholic seminary, established at Maynooth in 1795, was staffed by a number of French professors fleeing the terror of the French Revolution. O'Faolain concludes that their influence stamped generations of Irish priests with distrust of any rebellion against authority. Since the Irish themselves were incorrigibly rebellious, the odd end result, O'Faolain thinks, is "a permanent and positive clerical antipathy to the laity...