Word: terrorisms
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...Viennese infantry regiments, two batteries of mountain artillery and one signal corps company. The good-hearted Tyrolese had heard many a rumor that an army of 8,000 Austrian Nazi exiles had massed on the Bavarian side of the frontier. The rumor crackled through Innsbruck, then spread with mounting terror through the Tyrol, through all Austria, that war had begun, the Nazi invasion was under way. From Vienna, Chancellor Dollfuss, delighted with his little war scare, announced that the maneuvers were merely the usual autumn field practice. He did not add that little Austria, which has just received official permission...
...stormy autumn night three years ago French peasants near the cathedral town of Beauvais stared in terror at a huge rain-drenched silver mass that lurched over their heads and into a nearby hillside. They heard three thunderous explosions, saw a gigantic blinding blaze. It was the end of Britain's ill-fated R-101, the end of Britain's hopes about lighter-than-air craft. For in that roaring hillside furnace burned the bones of most of the men who had fought for the dirigible program: Lord Christopher Birdwood Thomson, Secretary of State for Air; Sir William...
...came a crowd of butchers and shoppers. One of the butchers flung a knife at Meek. He dodged it, ran outside, stopped suddenly four feet from a plainclothes man. He started shooting again, hit a woman. The plainclothes man neatly drilled a bullet into Meek's heart. Terror-stricken Mr. Wood was found shivering in a grocery shop...
...victims of the Machado reign of terror knew what was in store for them. They were shot down peacefully in their own homes, like the Freyre de Andrade brothers, or murdered on their doorsteps like Editor Andre of El Dia, or shot from passing automobiles, or rushed without warning to Principe Fortress and tortured to death, or kidnapped by the Porra and lynched. But Gerardo Machado knows what is in store for him. Always hoping to escape, somewhere, somehow, he last week begged and obtained permission to seek refuge in Canada. To confuse those Cuban avengers who will not rest...
Cried Dr. Maier: "Without Luther there could have been no Washington. . . . While [Lincoln] dealt with bodies in bondage and minds coerced by mental slavery, Luther threw off the shackles of that damnable spiritual tyranny that pressed human souls of all colors and races into the strait jacket of abject terror that cringes before the distressing spectres of an outraged conscience and shudders before the thought of God and eternity. . . . All Protestantism, yea, Roman Catholicism itself, as its eminent scholars have admitted, not only owes him an everlasting debt of gratitude but also needs the restatement of many of his principles...