reign of terror
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The FBI deemed that the Reign of Terror also lasted only five years in the '20s when in reality it had lasted about two decades.
From Salon • Oct. 9, 2023
Known as the Reign of Terror, it sparked a major FBI investigation involving J Edgar Hoover.
From BBC • May 15, 2023
Disagreements between the Committee of Public Safety and the Convention over religious and economic policies hastened the end of the Reign of Terror as support for Robespierre’s repressive policies dwindled.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
My feelings for this greatest of Neoclassical artists, who spun Roman precedents into propaganda for the Reign of Terror and then for Napoleon, have cycled over many years between adulation and queasiness.
From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2022
Cowboy and his sister, Elizabeth, also now dead, had witnessed the Reign of Terror from inside their father’s house of secrets.
From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
