Word: airraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam War was not the bloodiest in U.S. history?despite nearly 50,000 dead by enemy action plus another 300,000 wounded. Americans suffered more casualties in the Civil War and the two World Wars. Physically speaking, most Americans were untouched by the war. There were no airraid drills; they did not have to fear for their lives (and now the draft has ended). Business went on pretty much as usual. Psychologically, however, Americans had never endured such...
December." Air raid sirens wail almost continuously. During one 15-hour period in the Punjab, there were eleven airraid alerts. One all-clear was sounded by the jittery control room before the warning blast was given. The nervousness, though, was justified: two towns in the area had been bombed with a large loss of life as Pakistani air force planes zipped repeatedly across the border. Included in their attacks was the city of Amritsar, whose Golden Temple is the holiest of holies to all Sikhs. At Agra, which was bombed in the Pakistanis' first blitz, the Taj Mahal was camouflaged...
Neither shellfire nor bombing attack has ever ruffled the musicians of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Whether they wear tails or fatigues, play in air-conditioned concert halls, musty airraid shelters or the hot, windy dust bowl of Mount Scopus, they customarily keep near-perfect measure and make fervent music. Last week the 34-year-old orchestra was shaken by another kind of disturbance. Its ordinarily staid and loyal subscribers, protesting the premiere in Israel of Arnold Schoenberg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, had tried to get rid of their subscription tickets in droves. Many of those who actually...
...Arabic that worse would follow if guerrilla raids continued. Beirut protested that most of the incidents had involved the destruction of minor objectives like power lines or culverts, and accused the Israelis of overreacting. Nevertheless, no one in the Middle East takes Israeli threats lightly. Beirut's airraid warning system was brushed off and tested, and hurried calls were put through to Fedayeen Leader Yasser Arafat in Amman. Arafat's guerrillas temporarily ceased most activities and quietly pulled back from a number of advance positions close to the border between the two countries...
Guests checking into Cairo's Nile Hilton these days are greeted by a polite note warning: "Upon instructions from the government, there will be an airraid trial at any time." With characteristic efficiency, the Egyptians began their first drill with an all-clear signal. On the streets of the capital, increasing numbers of autos have their headlights painted blue to reduce their visibility from the air. Both the drills-which went off largely as planned-and the "blue-out" are signs of Egypt's growing concern over Israeli air raids...