Word: terrorisms
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...Dulled with terror, we realized the terrible disaster. With a rope we fixed the porter to the rock over which the rest of the rope was double slung. We proceeded to Camp Eight, where we recalled Hartmann and Dr. Wien, for the whole party to descend and search for our poor friends. Six in all passed the night on an ice ledge a metre wide on the range of the couloir. Next day almost the entire expedition gathered in the highest basin of the Zemu Glacier...
...list grew from a thing of no importance to an inexplicable, spiteful terror as the San Pedro pounded into a blow off the Virginia coast. Thereafter the San Pedro became not a machine of wood and metal but a personification, headstrong and invincible, created to kill 400 people. She bucked and danced and cracked. She reduced her passengers to impotent lumps of frightened flesh. She crushed from the firm officers who commanded her all energy and initiative, leaving behind the hulls of men who only knew that they must obey Captain Clendening. She made of able Captain Clendening...
...members of the crew, are afraid to go to sea with Mr. Adams." Last week Mr. Adams, a mild-looking man of 39 with a Southern drawl, arrived in Manhattan, was arrested and taken before a U. S. Commissioner. He explained: "I shot the man because I was in terror -mortal terror, a condition I was never in during the War. I fired one shot and then another not knowing the first had hit him in the head." Mr. Adams was held without bail on a charge of murder on the high seas...
Corporal Cain the second before he stepped off the plane's wing (see upper cut). But the open, straining mouth did not express terror or anguish; Corporal Cain was merely gasping in one last deep breath of rushing air before his plunge. Another view (see lower cut) showed what the parachutist sees as he looks down to select a landing spot...
...Unless this campaign has been an act of unbelievable stupidity, it is primarily an attempt to perpetuate the reign of terror that the Kansas City Star is determined to maintain. ... I can prove that the Star has deliberately colored the news, has misrepresented the facts, and has indulged in wilful, slanderous lies. If there is no way to correct this condition peacefully then I propose to use very heroic methods. . . . The acts of the Kansas City Star and/or expressed in the acts of Governor Woodring, are flagrantly lawless, and are a grave threat to the credit and prosperity...