Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sympathy. The anguished father went to call on the M.P. for Leeds, who happens to be Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell. Gaitskell poured him tea and got busy at the War Office. Lieut. Moorhouse, Gaitskell learned, had led his platoon through the back streets of Port Said on a night raid in which nine Egyptian terrorists were rounded up. He had gone back alone to the scene of the arrest next morning in an open Land Rover. The car had been found deserted on a side street. Lieut. Moorhouse was not seen again. That night Commanding General Sir Hugh Stockwell sent...
...raiders took no prisoners and carried 100 Indian scalps back to show off in a Denver theater. The massacre fired the Plains Indians to renewed warfare against the white man and shocked the East. CBS's Playhouse 90 had the sound idea of dramatizing Colonel Chivington's raid, but somehow the good idea got ambushed by the bad guys along the way. Made on film, Massacre at Sand Creek on TV last week seemed devoted mainly to assuring that young (30), wet-eyed Actor John Derek, in the part of a young lieutenant who was the Indians...
...Szolnok, no wheel turned. The coal mines were deserted. At Salgotarjan 80 people were killed when police fired into a crowd of 10,000 workers who demanded the release of their workers'-council representative. But the most serious disturbances were at Miskolc, near the Czech border. Following a raid by Freedom Fighters who came down from the Bukk Mountains and de stroyed a Communist newspaper plant, Soviet soldiers retaliated by setting fire to a theater in which workers were holding a strike meeting. Later the Freedom Fighters descended from the hills again, fought a pitched battle with the Soviet...
...dozen or more grenade, small-arms and even rocket attacks on British and French night patrols. After Egyptian snipers killed one British patrol commander, Lieut. General Sir Hugh Stockwell carried out his threat to "meet force with force," sent a tank-supported battalion on another Arab-quarter roundup. The raid turned into a street battle in which, according to one U.N. officer, 27 Egyptians were killed...
...people groaned beneath the rule of outlaw and disorder. A village in a valley is its hero and its theme. Loud are the wails of its inhabitants when a farmer who has overheard some bandits plotting on the hill comes down to tell the village that it will be raided as soon as the rice is cut. But one man, Rikichi (Yoshio Tsuchiya), whose wife was carried off in the last raid, does not wail; he resolves to fight. And the wise old man who lives in the mill reveals to the vil lagers a way to fight: hire soldiers...