Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first time since he became ill. But his greatest pleasure came when he opened a package from his grandchildren: Susan, 3, Barbara Anne, 6½, and David, 7#189;. Each child had sent an original drawing. David also sent a book, a 25? volume called The Mackenzie Raid by Colonel Red Reeder, a story of action on the Texas border around 1873. Each of the children filled out the personally wrapped packages with the most precious gift of all: two sticks of bubble gum. Showered with such important gifts, the President of the U.S. laughed more and felt better than...
...group of raiders, National Casket Co., biggest firm in its field, looked like a golden opportunity. As a company director pointed out: "A man could liquidate this company and make millions." Last week, at its annual meeting, National Casket fought off just such a raid in one of the strangest proxy wars in years. A month ago, a firm of Manhattan lawyers acting for an unidentified group suddenly offered to buy 32,000 shares of the company's 63,370 shares of common stock. The price: $48.50 per share, $8.50 more than the market price...
Cambridge cops will raid those nasty CRIMSON lions in their den, 14 Plympton St., at 7:30 p.m. today. Giggle and then take over. Upperclass fall competition closes tonight...
...next day the delegations met to certify the agreement. "The Russians looked like a pack of foxes after a successful raid on a chicken yard," wrote TIME Correspondent James Bell. "Chancellor Adenauer, pale and unsmiling shook hands with Bulganin without even looking at him, and stalked out without a word...
...Krim, a key North African troublemaker, as well as to Jerusalem's Jew-hating Mufti. In the Gaza strip he allows, if he does not approve, the arming and training of the Al Fedayeen commandos, teams of Palestine Arab refugees which periodically cross the border to raid Israel. At the Bandung Conference last April, where he was hailed as a conquering hero of anticolonialism, he pumped the hands of Nehru and Chou Enlai; he bartered a mass of Egyptian cotton for products from Red China. Last year, he sent a trade mission to Moscow, and next year he plans...