Word: terrorisms
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...phase after the dinner hour. Fat, oily women, some without shoes, rattle dirty dishes. Their men sit smoking in front of the Helmar Social Club. Their litters of children play and quarrel shrilly all through the street. Into this babble and filth and smell one evening last week came Terror...
...made the bugaboo and the scapegoat of the age. . . . There was a frowardness about it, a loud insurgency, which made it seem a thousandfold its size. (The analogy with Communism is disconcertingly close.)" When Christianity became legal, then official, it began what Browne describes as a reign of terror. "Of all the virtues possessed by the Christians, tolerance was last and least." Under Julian the Apostate's empery came a brief interregnum. Even St. Augustine is flayed by Author Browne. "The extravagance of his belief in the innate wickedness of mankind leads one to suspect that he may have suffered...
...maiden ladies after the War find a Negro cook whom they consider a perfect jewel till they discover he is insane. They keep him anyway. "With him they lived in terror, but in the tradition...
...this thing'' alone, he telephoned to Governor Flem Sampson at Frankfort for aid. Not until a petition of 50 substantial citizens was relayed to him would the Governor act. Then, ordering 350 National Guardsmen under Colonel Daniel Carrell into Harlan County. Governor Sampson declared: "A reign of terror has been precipitated. . . . Outsiders from Illinois and other States are responsible. . . . This must stop and stop now. . . . The troops will protect those who behave themselves and take charge of those...
...Politico Wang Chingwei. Both these men used to be intimates of President Chiang, broke with him some time ago, flayed him last week as a Dictator, called his Congress a fake. Upon seizing power, General Chen made the usual pretentions that all adjoining provinces had joined his revolt. In terror from Canton fled the Governor of the Province (Kwangtung), sagacious Chen Mingshu...