Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl he left behind, but he is weak-willed, and the women use him for their own purpose. The other, Toshiro Mifune, is a bullnecked, snarling ruffian who dreams of avenging the lost battle by becoming a great samurai. He soon has a chance when a rabble of bandits raid the farm. Toshiro kills the bandit chief and routs his men, then becomes a beast of the hills. He sweeps back into his native village, scattering the militia like a cat in a hen roost...
Elder, calling the former policy of the GSAS "completely archaic," said that most students only need loans for short-term purposes, since a large scholarship program in general covers such basic expenses as tuition. "Although I don't expect a raid on the bank, lower interest rates should certainly make loans more bearable," he said...
...sounded loud and clear again. In it are the memories Grosz has tried to drown in the oil of his canvases: a bloated soldier from his war years, carrying his own amputated leg; a drunken alcoholic child; Grosz's mother, killed in World War II air raid; an opulent nude being clawed by a bodiless arm; gibbets full of dancing figures; and brooding over all the specter Death and a blood-smeared female Europe, satiated to the point of idiocy. Grosz, who pulls no punches, says grimly of his bloody Mother Europe: "She is satisfied. She's eaten...
...Philippines a native combo dewed the eyes of the crew of an LST with a proud performance of Stardust. In Burma U.S. troops heard Tokyo Rose play it at midnight. In Tokyo a Japanese journalist named Tateishi and two pals huddled in a closet during a B-29 raid, listening to Stardust on a portable phonograph...
...Thus, for an investment of $1,552,000 to win stock control, the raiders could sell off the company's assets, pocket a quick $1,700,000 profit. Angry and determined, National Casket's management lost no time fighting back. First, it alerted all stockholders to the raid, released its 1955 earnings weeks ahead of schedule, promised to boost dividends. The report: sales of $16,997,754, impressive earnings of $583,542 or $4.22 per share v. $1.85 per share...