Word: terrorisms
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...over wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered human beings gaze on the ruins of their cities and scan the dark horizon for the approach of some new peril, tyranny or terror. Among the victors there is a babel of voices, among the vanquished a sullen silence of despair...
...knows how many million Russians have been killed, since 1917, by purges, terror and other Government repressive measures. Certainly, the grim total must be numbered in millions. Brooks Atkinson, former N.Y. Times correspondent in Moscow, believes that ten to 15 million Russians are in Soviet jails, forced labor camps or exile. For the leaders of the Soviet Government are possessed by fanatical dogmas which they mean to make live at all costs. And the patient Russian people, who merely want to live, are possessed body & soul by their Government. The struggle between them, however hidden, is ceaseless. Purges indicate...
...talked tough to some people in a lunch wagon. Horrified young Nick Adams (Hemingway as a boy) managed to warn their quarry, the Swede, but the Swede just stayed on his bed, knowing he could not escape. Within a few crisp pages of dialogue, Hemingway created a masterpiece in terror-by-suggestion...
...warrior) dolled up in a black kimono and sporting real hair wound into a topknot. The show's general manager, a weathered old farmer who looked more like a scarecrow than some of the exhibits, was moved to remark with a sly smile that "samurai now hold no terror for crows...
...posts manned by grim-faced infantrymen and paratroopers in maroon berets hemmed in the precincts of the British rulers. Tommy gunners covered everyone entering Barclay's Bank to cash a check. The Post Office, Government Lands Office, Overseas Airways office jittered as Jewish extremists carried on a "telephone terror," threatening bombings (the blasted walls of the King David Hotel were still vivid in everyone's mind). On Zion Circus the marquee of a cinema twinkled: "They Were Expendable...