Word: air-raid
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...spectators joined her. Police dispersed them, but as their numbers grew the police were unable to cope with them. Inside the embassy an officer remarked: "Look, we're being demonstrated against." The crowds grew larger, began to stone the embassy; eight attachés took to an air-raid shelter. Chinese police and firemen tried to keep the crowds back with fire hoses, were greeted with howls of derision when they turned on the hose and produced only a feeble spurt of water...
Into umbrous, ill-ventilated underground caverns, seemingly as necessary to life as the air-raid shelters where some of the visitors were born, thousands of bemused young Londoners squeeze nightly to stomp and holler their approval of Britain's latest musical mania: U.S. rock 'n' roll, commercial hillbilly and folk music, warmed over and juiced up in a mishmash called skiffle...
...Cairo, meanwhile, President Gamal Abdel Nasser charged the British and French with "flagrant aggression" as air-raid sirens sounded repeatedly and Allied warplanes dominated the air over Suez with round-the-clock assaults on vital installations. Nasser said that he would fight "to the last drop of my blood" rather than "die in slavery...
Died. Bernard William Cardinal Griffin, 57, Archbishop of Westminster and leader of Great Britain's Roman Catholics, canon lawyer, active supporter and occasional stump-speaker for Labor, who served as an air-raid warden during the Battle of Britain, became the youngest cardinal on his election in 1946; of a heart attack; in New Polzeath. England...
Early Career: Built a prosperous law practice in Liverpool, specializing in insurance; at 32 became chairman of local town council, imposed air-raid precautions long before most Britons admitted possibility of war. Three months before war began, quit law practice to join territorial army; rose rapidly to colonel on staff of British Second Army, where he served as observer at Sicily landings, helped plan Normandy, where he landed on D-day-plus-one. Brigadier at war's end, he emerged with the O.B.E. for services in invasion planning...