Word: terrorisms
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...submit that the problem is not the control of Atom but of Adam. We do not stand in terror of a thing but of ourselves. In this subterfuge of speaking about the Atom we simply give credence to the words of Jeremiah: The heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked...
...meeting with Hitler in 1939, Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop and Keitel outlined the kind of strategic terror they intended to use in the Polish war. Plans were made for the complete liquidation of Poland's intelligentsia, nobility, clergy and resistance movements. Ribbentrop's pet project was a "spontaneous" revolt of Ukrainians, during the course of which a considerable number of Poles would be slaughtered...
...tuck-tuck of mah-jongg tablets, the faltering steps of a blind man on a moonlit night, Chungking in the mist, the whistle of unseen leaves-all these, in Payne's record, are as ineluctably part of China's life as the suffering, corruption, brutality and terror bred by foreign and domestic wars...
...Terror in the Streets. Widows told of drunken Japanese soldiers leading their husbands and sons out to be killed. Witness after witness described bayonetings, shootings, the sight of singing, drunken Japanese throwing grenades, setting fires, defiling bodies...
Barns & Bowls. It was only natural that Felix ("Doc"') Blanchard Jr. should be a fullback terror; 240-lb. Felix ("Doc") Blanchard Sr. had been one at Tulane, at least when he got mad enough. In Marlboro County, S.C., where they lived, young Doc began to imitate his old man early. When he was two and a half, he got his aunt to hold a football (see cut) and managed to kick it a few feet. The next year he tried out his father's pipe and set fire to the barn...