Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inaudible and exciting music, the bright statues began a fantastically deliberate ballet through the squares of the chessboard. The pawns stepped forward with a delicate terror; the rooks swept furiously, in straight lines, across the spaces, and the bishops slanted with slow dexterity between the stiff irregular maneuvers of the knights. Soon there were fewer dancers in the ballet; two sinister queens pranced among them with precise cruelty. The music to which they moved grew faint and there were long periods in which the figurines stood still and the two men stared at the board with a contemplative fury. Finally...
...believes the world owes to the Bolsheviki. He pointed out that although a similarity exists between the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution in that the two are the greatest liberating events in human history, the latter contains no incidents to compare with the horror of the Reign of Terror. It is due to the lack of perspective that people generally think that nothing exceeds the moral depravity and terror of the Russian Revolution, Dr. Holmes stated...
...Secondly," remarked Dr. Holmes, "the Bolsheviki saved the Revolution. This, in the eyes of many people, is the one great crime of the Bolsheviki, but if it were not for them, the Czar and all his train would have returned and a White Terror would have resulted to make the Red Terror look like a kindergarten game. There would have been a civil war against the peasants to regain land innumerable pogroms against the Jews, and the worst tyranny in modern history would have been restored. For what the Bolsheviki did all posterity will thank them...
Will Mahoney, as he waved above a flight of stairs in his perilous and finally disastrous clog, caused even famed aviators who viewed the first showing to shiver with terror. Elsewhere he made aviators, critics and common people laugh ecstatically. Trini, billed as the star, offered some sex-appeal and stamped her Spanish feet. One Kitty O'Connor gave cry with what seemed practically a baritone in her joyfully accepted rendition of the song hit, "We'll Have a New Home in the Morning...
...Having business upon the 16th floor, he enquired for the stairs. Such, however, was the appearance of the elevator starter that he allowed himself to be cajoled by friends into accepting a lift. "Let me out at the 16th floor, please," he said. With amazement and a shock of terror, he watched the operator press a little button on a switchboard at his elbow. As other passengers entered the polished car, the operator pressed a button for each, corresponding to the designated floor. Finally, at a gesture from the starter, the operator touched a lever within the car, causing...