Word: air-raid
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...have had difficulty collecting instances of bomb fright among children," said the doctor. Of 8,000 Bristol school children, only four per cent showed symptoms of terror after air raids. These children were between the ages of one and six, came mostly from broken homes, had been nervous before the raids. Most normal children play air-raid games, sometimes enjoy the excitement. What bothers children more than bombs is disrupted family life...
When some of his candidates turned against him, started campaigning as independents, Manuel Quezon took to his easy chair, picked up the telephone beside it, dialed a number. In a few minutes he had the situation in hand. Five rebel candidates were made air-raid wardens in Manila, with bigger salaries than they would have got if elected. The rest became Acting Governors...
...When the air-raid warning sounds, I take the Bible from the shelf and read the Twenty-Third Psalm. Then I put up a wee bit prayer. Then I take a wee drap o' whiskey to steady my nerves. Then I get in bed and pull up the covers. And then I tell Hitler to go to hell...
...have it hard today. . . . Your wives sometimes stand for hours before stores in order to buy some vegetables. Your children are frequently sent into the country and separated from you for months. . . . Then because necessary hands are not available you have to shovel coal; then at nights go into air-raid protection cellars and, after two hours' sleep, back to hard work. That is the way it is in many cities of the Reich and in some even worse...
Because Dover still gets eight to ten siren warnings daily, the first lesson in 18 months was an air-raid drill: Teacher cried "Get in the cave," and pupils grabbed gas masks, cleared out in 30 seconds. At the second lesson they learned to dive under desks at the word "Shell...