Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal, sponsored by Council-man A1 Vellucci, requests that the Cambridge City Manager confer with local, state, and University officials on the feasibility of the resolution. Vellucci hoped that even federal funds might be available for the project, since the under ground garage could also serve as an air raid shelter...
Future plans have not yet solidified, although one group is considering a panty raid, and another may hold a "burning of the Gen Ed books" on the steps of Widener...
...Council. In any case, its past operations have been characterized by unrealistic programs met by public apathy. At the same time its budgets have exceeded necessity, and Congress has slashed them by as much as half. In 1956, for example, the OCDM asked for $35 million to build air-raid shelters which the hydrogen bomb had largely outdated. And plans for mass evacuation of cities before atomic or hydrogen attack have ranged from the impractical to the absurd...
After dining with Queen Elizabeth at Windsor Castle, the place where Kaiser Wilhelm II visited his cousin George V in 1910, Adenauer presented an $11,900 check to the fund for rebuilding Coventry Cathedral, which German bombers destroyed in a 1940 raid. After three glowing days Adenauer returned to Germany, where this week he will play host to Russia's No. 2 man, First Deputy Premier Anastas Mikoyan, whose visit to Bonn to sign the new Russia-West Germany trade pact is further evidence of West Germany's heightened prestige...
...doldrums-is "out" again. Its members have the illusion that Hitler's war aims include Irish "freedom." The young village buckoes give up their Gaelic football in favor of what the parish curate calls the national pastime-giving the British "a touch" or two. They spy on airfields, raid military barracks to loot arms, and in general try to behave like true descendants of "the Bold Fenian...