Word: terrorisms
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...Peleliu is incomparably worse than Guam in its bloodiness, terror, climate and the incomprehensible tenacity of the Japs. For sheer brutality and fatigue, I think it surpasses anything yet seen in the Pacific, certainly from the standpoint of numbers of troops involved and the time taken to make the island secure...
Strongest in Westphalia, the Feme of 700 years ago had a Robin Hood flavor. But by 1500, the Feme had become a synonym for persecution. Membership had grown above 100,000 and many used the protection of the Feme for their own ends. But such was its terror that less than 100 years ago scrolls sealed by the Feme could still be found in German archives. On the seals was written: "None may read unless he be a juror of the Feme"-and none had read...
Germans muttered a shuddery word: Feme, from the Old German veme, meaning punishment. Cornered Nazis were turning back to the lawless early '20s, when Feme courts spread terror among republicans. They planned a second revival of the medieval Feme, the law of the days of the robber barons...
...sent to the Eastern Front. Then, like Bela Kun, the future head of Soviet Hungary, and Tibor Szamuely, the future head of Hungary's Red Terror, Josip Broz was captured by the Russians, or deserted to them. It was 1915. He was 19. The Russians packed him off to Omsk, in Siberia...
...rooftop height. Near the base of the crater, where the scientists, keeping an eye out for falling bombs, have been working, steam and gas pours from deep holes (fumeroles) with red-hot sides. Said Dr. McGrew: "This seemed like a glance into Hades." Though El Monstruo has spread terror among the Indian natives, birds and animals seem unperturbed, and spiders spin webs in the volcanic...