Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such haggling never distracts the Russians from their more serious efforts to cut down Berlin's price. Economic strangulation is advancing steadily, but it is a slow process. Terror is a faster weapon. While Russian propaganda screams that U.S. forces have kidnaped 40,000 Berliners, while it warns in black newspaper headlines BERLIN IS NOT CHICAGO, the MVD proves its mastery of the arts of Capone and Beria. Warning phone calls, threatening letters, shadowing agents are merely the trivial daily nuisances that plague anti-Reds. The MVD's serious work is executed in a garish, blue-grey house...
...pickling corpses, as late as the 19th Century. The body of Admiral Nelson, who was killed aboard the Victory off Cape Trafalgar, was undressed except for a shirt and jammed into a large, upright cask of brandy. One black and stormy night, the marine guarding the cask noted in terror that its lid was slowly rising. He hurriedly summoned the ship's surgeon, who spoke knowingly of a disengagement of air. Some of the brandy was drawn off from the cask's lower bunghole and it was refilled from the top. The legend that sailors tapped the cask...
...untested Jayvee tennis squad journeys to Andover today to play the tennis terror of the local prep school courts. Coach Corey Winn's team will be striving for a 1,000 average this afternoon with which to confront Babson Institute in Thursday's match...
Commodore Pote Putnam's navy--three dinghies--takes to the waves this afternoon in a race to the finish, with MIT, the terror of the local seas. The craft will maneuver in the Basin...
...Cruel Spirit. The truth of his statement was illustrated when Berlin's City Assembly met to debate the quiet terror which has gripped Berlin's Soviet sector for months. Anti-Communists have been disappearing daily, without a trace. Related Frau Annedore Leber, a Socialist deputy: "Today again I had a strange visitor who wanted to know about my political life and what sort of guests come to my house. That is why I am as much concerned about the fate of Maniu, Petkoff and Masaryk as I am about the fate of my closest friends. . . . There...