Word: terrorisms
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There are few sounds as ominously suggestive of the passing of time as the regular tramp of feet. Guilty men hear in it the approaching minions of the law and in their terror rush to confess. The imaginative are reminded of tortured spirits to whom death has not meant peace The nervous fidget. Proctors who are in the habit of taking their morning constitutional in the aisles of the examination room ought to be reminded that many men are faced by a blue book and a set of questions are apt to be somewhat anxious, are often feverishly imaginative...
...time for the United States to give concrete reality to the prophetic utterance of President Coolidge in his Omaha address in 1925, when he declared that 'our country has definitely relinquished the old standards of dealing with other countries by terror and force and is definitely committed to the new standard of dealing with them through friendship and understanding...
Tongue Gouged. At Mexico City a leading newspaper, Excelsior, reported the "Calles terror" as hysterically as it had flayed "Coolidge hypocrisy" the day before. Cried an editorial...
Then just as he is about to try again the underworld river, which everybody knows flows under that part of Cambridge, begins to seep through the cracks in the floor and the distinguished gathering retreats in terror...
...under which hardly any man, not below the standard of humanity, can endure to live. It will supersede the use of other means yes Military. They are afraid of Military action because the action of the Military shall be instantly and accurately component to the will of the Commander. Terror is the grand instrument. Terror can work only through assurance that evil will follow any failure of conformity between the will and action willed. Every failure must therefore be punished. Even the most minute must be visited with the heaviest in fiction, and as failure in extreme exactness must frequently...