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reign of terror

noun as in period of suppression

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They’re currently hitting smaller home haunts across the city, but Silva says, if you go to just one this season, make it Reign of Terror.

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During the French Revolution, royal family members and aristocrats went underground to escape the Reign of Terror.

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Other real-life subjects include the father of the atomic bomb, a lauded American conductor and the victims and perpetrators of the Reign of Terror in the Osage Nation in 1920s Oklahoma.

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The film recounts a period known as the Reign of Terror, when at least 24 Osage were murdered in a conspiracy to get their mineral rights.

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The agency conducted a sprawling investigation that culminated in the arrests of three of Brown’s relatives, including her brother-in-law, Ernest Burkhart, bringing an end to what the Osage called the Reign of Terror.

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