Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...loungers. "Don't worry," an officer called out. "You won't get hurt. We're after the army." A moment later the street shook as the Israelis opened their attack on the big police fort on the other side of town. It was another Israeli reprisal raid, the fourth in a month. This one was in retaliation for two Israeli farm hands whom Jordanian guerrilla raiders killed in an orange grove across from Kalkilya, lopping off their victims' ears as trophies...
With Israel absent, the commission went about censuring Israel's reprisal raid on Husan, in which 37 Arabs died, as a "planned and unprovoked aggression." The same day five Israelis were killed in a truck ambush near the Jordan border. This time the Israelis pointedly refrained from asking the U.N. to look into the shooting, said they would investigate it themselves...
...attack on Husan was less a guerrilla raid than a full-scale military operation. Though carried out while Nasser was preoccupied with Suez, and their own government overwhelmingly preponderant on its borders, the Husan affair made many Israelis fearful of the consequences. Said a Jerusalem butcher: "Eight Jewish...
...sergeant, on the other hand, flatly denied ever asking Ready for a transfer and stated that "common talk was that the bookies and the barrooms could not take the pressure" he put on them. Cosgrove had participated in a federal raid and arrest of gamblers including several Cambridge residents in Chelsea...
...Britain's economy is a job as curator of a rubbish dump in London's bombed-out East End. Slightly addled but still marvelously eloquent after his life in the trenches, Old Cock has one friend, known only as "Arp" (from the initials on his Air Raid Precautions uniform jacket). A bomb had deprived Arp of everything -house, family, name, memory and speech. But Old Cock talks enough for two-his language flows like pig's ear in a boozer on Saturday night and is rich as hot gammon. In a country of free teeth...