Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...convincing, a movie about a police state must maintain an atmosphere of futility and terror. "State Secret" almost succeeds, but eventually dies out in a weak ending. The acting, photography, and producing cannot carry the plot all the way, though they are excellent in themselves...
...since the days of The Owl has such terror stalked the Yard. That was in the fall of 1948, when local inhabitants were foiled by the A.S.P.C.A. in an attempt to shoot the predator. There have been no reports of such a movement in the present crisis, but armed violence is feared if the raids continue...
...settlers. The Chinese are industrious, pork-loving Confucianists, largely recent immigrants who now dominate the economy. After the war, the Malay nationalists insisted on limiting citizenship rights to some 10% of the Chinese. Such discrimination obviously undermined the country's chances of withstanding the Communist terror that broke out in June...
...Hate & Terror. That was the first sign of trouble stirring in the U.S.'s tiny (3.435 sq. mi), poverty-stricken Caribbean territory-trouble which quickly spread to the steps of President Truman's residence in Washington (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Soon violence erupted in a blaze of gunfire all over the island. Seventy Nationalists seized the town of Jayuya, killing four policemen, firing the post office, police station, Selective Service headquarters and 20 homes. In Ponce, Mayaguez, Utuado, half a dozen other towns, Nationalists attacked police stations with small arms and Molotov cocktails...
...beautiful. If she wore a girdle which pinched in her waist . . . she had a beautiful figure. And after . . . modeling and posing in shows and for national magazine ads, after dates, after her night or two a week with her lover, she would go to bed and there lie in terror of something unreal and unseen, and she would get up at all hours and take taxicabs just to be with anyone who would hold her hand [and] tell her she was a good girl and that she wasn't alone . . . What could life hold...