Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...grief and terror of the hour, these quiet voices, if they can be heard, may yet tell of the rebuilding of the world...
Moreover, Russian officialdom began to experience a terror which continues to this day. For the murder of Stalin's "Dear Friend," Sergei M. Kirov, head of the Leningrad Soviet, who had once called Comrade Stalin the "greatest leader of all times and all nations," 117 persons were known to have been put to death. That started the fiercest empire-wide purge of modern times. Thousands were executed with only a ghost of a trial. Secret police reigned as ruthlessly over Russia as in Tsarist times. First it was the Cheka, next the OGPU, later the N.K.V.D.-but essentially they...
...pretty clear even to Joe Stalin that he would be some time getting what he wanted. But his Armies made desperate efforts to get him at least a little something. While strengthened land forces hurled themselves at the Finns on three fronts, Soviet airplanes opened a fresh campaign of terror, raining bombs on Finland's southern cities-Helsinki, Viipuri, Turku, Hanko, Tampere and Porvoo. Finns said 350 planes took part in a single day's bombing...
...explanation more depressing than any to the German cause was published by El Dia of Montevideo: that Britain's lighter cruisers actually rendered Germany's vaunted sea terror harmless. Said El Dia, which may well have had access to the official Uruguayan commission that examined Spee: "We are authoritatively able to give assurance that the Graf Spee's fighting capacity was almost totally nullified in the battle. Its control tower had been damaged so that its artillery could not be managed. Its ammunition lifter had been paralyzed and heavy shells had to be carried on the shoulders...