Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe in open forums and I believe in free speech," Noville said, "but I do not think our school halls should be open to a man who by his acts has shown that ... his entire philosophy ... is founded on fear and terror...
...defendants were bureaucrats and diplomats, the technicians of terror and the bookkeepers of tyranny. In the glare of the klieg lights, they looked almost pitiful. When grey-haired Baron Ernst von Weizsäcker was led into the dock, a U.S. colonel's wife in the gallery whispered: "Why, look at that nice...
...words were answered by a rattle of gunfire. Ten days later Pearse was dead before a British firing squad. The Post Office itself was a smoldering ruin and Ireland's gentle countryside was plunged into a wave of terror...
From a cottage window among the grey ruins of Calais, blond, moody Claude Wissocq, 33, stared out into the fog and the darkness. He shivered, then whispered to his mother: "Dreadful things can happen in the fog. There is terror. And it comes in from the east. You've noticed that...
Suprugov has forced his first wife to have an abortion for sheer terror at the thought of the fuss a child would make. In his abnormal ache for sympathy, he falsifies his dead mother as an out-all-night card player in order to make his childhood sound tragic. He flies into a rage when he is called from dinner to attend a wounded woman who is having a premature baby. And yet the author has regarded Suprugov so compassionately that the reader may feel compassion for the wretch...