Word: terrorisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Japan was in the grip of a private black terror. The terrorists: diehard fanatics who would not acknowledge defeat. The victims: those "responsible for the ignoble surrender." The punishment: death for those who were caught, arson for those who had fled...
...cataleptic trances. After the pallbearers have gone, the camera coldly, tenderly approaches the coffin in a silence so intense as to be almost unbearable. When the shriek of the prematurely buried woman finally comes, it releases the rest of the show into a free-for-all masterpiece of increasing terror...
Partisans had done an impressive job in preparing for the German collapse and organizing North Italy afterwards. But they had also carried on an unflagging terror campaign. In the streets of Milan, alleged Fascists or sympathizers were rubbed out at the rate of 30 or 40 a night. When Allied authorities ordered arms surrendered, thousands of pro-Communist Partisans left Milan and took to the countryside, where they still continue their unlawful activities...
When Eaton returned to North Africa, he was flush with a $20,000 revolution-promotion fund. His first task was to find the rightful Pasha, who had fled in terror far up the Nile. After a two-month search he found his man. Somewhat reluctantly, Hamet signed a treaty of alliance with the U.S., made Eaton a general in his army, and agreed to march on Tripoli...
Security from Terror? When the United Nations met at San Francisco they drafted a peculiar charter for a peculiar world in which a few powers seemed far stronger than all the others together. The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. relied fundamentally on the belief that they could defend themselves. That was the meaning of the one-power veto and many another charter provision...