Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build the personal power that ousted Stalin's heirs: Georgy Malenkov, Vyacheslav Molotov, Lazar Kaganovich, even the Red army's authentic hero Marshal Zhukov. But Khrushchev's elemental knowledge of the people told him that the Soviet's rising technology needed some freedom from terror, and he set a new course of demote, not destroy; prosper, not starve. "It is not wrong," said he, as he laid claim to be Communism's first popular leader, "to throw in a piece of bacon and a piece of butter in the course of improving the theory...
...share, the place granted them by the votes of the citizens. Why then should the odious strife and fratricidal murders that are still drenching the Algerian soil with blood continue, unless they be the work of a group of ambitious agitators determined to establish by brute force and terror their totalitarian dictatorship? The future of Algeria rests with the Algerians, not as thrust upon them by knife and machine gun, but according to the will which they will express legitimately through universal suffrage. With them, and for them, France will see to it that their choice is free...
...nearby island; for the commander, who is sure that his dreary assignment is punishment for once having run a destroyer aground, there is endless compulsive reading, mixed with lone drinking bouts. Commander Hake is an Annapolis man, in many ways a first-rate officer, but an enigma and a terror to his men, who call him "Admiral God." He is frightening at inspections, when he wears an ancient Navy cutlass. His sole link with the outside world is the erotic letters he gets from a beautiful wife. His overriding passion is to get his island job done at whatever risk...
...wonder that our mental hospitals are not only kept full but are brimming over when children are subjected to public terror and humiliation that they are too inexperienced to cope with and to rationalize the way adults have to. Have we delivered American childhood from the sweat shop only to turn it over to such Romanesque pastimes as the terrors and tensions of the Ottawa, Kans. brand of peewee baseball...
...perhaps as much to get rid of him as anything else, Congress authorized Paul Jones to sail Ranger to France and there seek a ship more to his liking. While searching, Jones in Ranger conducted raids on the English and Scottish coasts and became the terror of the British Isles. After more than a year, Jones found a ship in which he could, as he put it, "go in harm's way": Le Due de Duras, a twelve-year-old East Indiaman renamed Bonhomme Richard after the Poor Richard of his friend Benjamin Franklin...