Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teller has another fear pertinent to the day of H-bomb attack: that the U.S. is overlooking one of the best methods of discouraging attack. Such preparation, he wrote in This Week, lies in building underground air-raid shelters deep enough to withstand the impact of the heaviest bombs. "They would be expensive but. . . I believe we could save the lives of most of our citizens. In out-of-the-way places we should build other shelters to protect food supplies and our industrial resources. We could store weapons for our armed forces. We can make sure that we retain...
...hunched instinctively and he dived for shelter, suddenly heedless of any TV audience as he muttered in disgust: "Here comes a damn plane!" The interruption made a vivid TV fragment this week in Algeria Aflame, an hour-long CBS report that brought home, with the immediacy of an air raid, the war between the French and the Moslem nationalists...
...staff has soaked up the kind of perceptiveness for human and atmospheric detail that Murrow showed in wartime London when he dramatized the blitz with such tellingly simple touches as the sound of unhurried footsteps, caught by his microphone on the sidewalk as Londoners walked calmly to their air raid shelters...
...morning Herald Tribune. In a city where death in the afternoon is a classic newspaper fate, the three have been scrambling to regain circulatory lifeblood. even if it means draining the other fellow's veins. This week Hearst's Journal-American (circ. 585.121) launched its boldest raid on rival circulation. At the cost of "close to $1,000,000" a year for more newsprint and personnel, the paper began running complete daily stock-market quotations-a reader-fetching feature hitherto monopolized in the afternoon by Scripps-Howard's World-Telegram and Sum (circ...
...Bible teachers, Dr. Klara Schlink, daughter of an engineering professor, and Erika Maddaus, daughter of a merchant. Even after Hitler had banned Bible classes, the two teachers went on instructing a group of girls in a Darmstadt attic. In the night of Sept. n, 1944, an Allied saturation raid blasted the city. Wrote Dr. Schlink (now Mother Basilea): "It was a different language from human preaching. It was as awesome and unmistakable as God speaking in judgment. It went through bone and marrow. It was the hour of renaissance. The girls no longer needed to be reminded of Bible classes...