Word: air-raid
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...where German civilians had inevitably been casualties, that according to "unimpeachable stories smuggled out of the Reich," 1,000 had been killed and 7,000 injured by R.A.F. raids on the city of Bremen alone, that in Berlin many had perished due to the collapse of cellars used as air-raid shelters...
...birth rate was down about 8%, will probably continue low for a time. Reasons: winter before last the Army was in France ; last summer much of the population spent their nights in the unromantic publicity of air-raid shelters. But people are finding other places and times for making love, and British doctors are amazed at how the war has seemed to promote fertility...
...London, Coventry and Plymouth, air-raid wardens found it almost impossible to keep youngsters in shelters. They insisted on fighting fires, frolicking and wisecracking in bombed streets...
...demand for urgent construction of a power project that cannot produce power before 1945, even if work should start tomorrow. People winced, pulled in their belts, tried to guess how many hundred billions the national debt would be by then, wondered whether their basements would make good air-raid shelters, wished a lot more Grand Coulees were making aluminum this week for a lot more airplanes...
Afterwards, intent Dr. Niebuhr found that Edinburgh had had its first air-raid alarm, that four Nazi planes had been potted overhead in the Firth of Forth Bridge raid while he spoke on man's destiny...