Word: air-raid
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...During alerts, books, games and drawing materials amuse visiting children who hurry to the museum's air-raid shelter. Counseled the Academy: "It has been found that a can of cookies is a very necessary part of a museum's wartime equipment...
...Malta's people-the first to be decorated en masse by a British king (TIME, April 27)-Old Dob Dob had shown two qualities that made him a blood brother: imperturbability in the face of danger, and simple piety. During the hottest raids on Malta, air-raid wardens would find Sir William beside them, unruffled, pitching in to help move wounded out of bomb-wrecked houses. Nightly he held Bible classes for officers and men, sprinkled his War Office reports with Scriptural quotations...
Next day the Jap had two more air-raid alarms, and this week he still hissed with dismay. He sacked the chief of the home command, Lieut. General Akira Muto, and he filled the air with illogical or contradictory blasts which only seemed to add to the magnitude of the bombers' success. Contradicting his story that only schools and hospitals had been hit, a Tokyo dispatch (via Berlin) announced that the Government would pay to rebuild the industrial plants that had been damaged. More important, he said that the raiders were twin-motored North American B-25s and that...
Should an air-raid siren sound "while you're watching a major-league baseball game, don't leave the ball park. A sticker on the back of your seat will tell you what to do. If you are to move at all, red and green arrows will direct you beneath the stands...
...Raid. In darkest Harlem, 36 air-raid wardens were caught in a raid by police, fined for shooting craps...