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At first, his superiors are all too happy for him to “play the savage” and strike terror in their adversaries’ hearts.

Thousands more remain in al-Shabab and continue to strike terror in Somalia and beyond.

From BBC

Afterward, a defiant Brown said he had aimed to “strike terror in the hearts of the proslavery people.”

“The group was planning to undertake terrorist attacks at vital installations in India with an aim to kill innocent people and strike terror in their minds,” the country’s main counter-terrorism arm said in a statement.

From Reuters

On June 10, 1944, some 200 Nazi soldiers descended on the village in an orchestrated plan that would strike terror in the hearts of any Frenchman who would even consider resisting the rule of the Third Reich.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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