Word: air-raid
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...Discreetly of Course." He played often in England, where he has long been a leader in the unimpressive field of British pianists, but it really took World War II to bring Solomon out. When he was not touring for the troops, he worked as an air-raid warden in his district of Kensington, fighting fires, digging out bomb victims, pausing only after the night's work to look at his hands...
...minutes or so it was like old times in London's Stepney. Homes along Brunton's Place, Raby Street and Salmon Lane were evacuated, buses were stopped. Sick animals from the People's Dispensary had been moved to a safer place, and in the old air-raid shelter near the Church of Our Lady Immaculate, the neighbors were gathered once more waiting in awful suspense for the detonation of a German bomb. Just as they hoped, the big bang never came. In an operation as delicate as brain surgery, London's No. 2 Bomb Disposal Squad...
Until late into the night, air-raid wardens last week rapped on the doors of Israeli homes, but the new state was not beset by air raids. Israel was getting ready for its first general election. The wardens had been pressed into service to distribute identity cards to the voters. This week, over 400,000 people were expected to go to the polls to elect a Constituent Assembly. The Assembly's 120 members* in turn would write Israel's constitution and act as Israel's parliament. With the Arabs defeated, it remained to be seen how Israel...
Shortly after noon one day last week, a white DC-3 with U.N. markings carried the last members of Mediator Count Bernadotte's staff from Tel Aviv. A minute and a half later, Tel Aviv's air-raid siren shrilled as an Egyptian reconnaissance plane flew over. War had returned to Palestine...
...Milne of Salonika and of Rubislaw, 81, onetime Chief of the British Imperial General Staff (1926-33); after long illness; in London. A veteran of Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan and a general officer since 1913, doughty old "Uncle George" served in World War II as an air-raid warden...