Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...steps. At three, Sammy hit the Orpheum Circuit in a flashy family act, has stuck with his father and uncle ever since-they still open his act with some nostalgic tap routines. During a burlesque stint, when he should have been in school, Sammy was pinched in an A.S.P.C.C. raid. Then came the skinny years of the Depression, a wartime stint in Special Services, the postwar years when the act kept getting stranded between guest engagements. Today, signed up to star in MGM's St. Louis Woman and leafing through Broadway offers, Sammy still insists on spots...
...stroke; in Berlin. Old Rebel Hofer was damned by the Nazis as "degenerate" after his widely praised oil. The Wind, won the Carnegie International jury's $1,000 first prize in 1938. He continued to paint in secret, lost some 300 paintings in an Allied bombing raid in 1943, but set doggedly to work at war's end to reproduce them from memory and photographs, was Germany's best-known painter at his death...
...days later, in Manhattan, a far more powerful body, the U.N. Security Council, condemned Israel for the recent bloody armed raid against Egyptian forces in the Gaza strip (TIME, March 14), in which 38 Egyptians were killed. It was one of the rare moments when the Russian and the U.S. delegations agreed on anything: the vote to condemn Israel was approved unanimously by all eleven members of the Security Council...
...maneuvers near Jolon, Calif, last week, the Army's 2nd Infantry Division set out to destroy an "enemy" missile-launching site whose concrete roof, 14 feet thick, had defied aerial bombing. In a hit-and-run raid, the G.I.s hypothetically turned the site into a radioactive crater...
Captive Audience. In Pasco, Wash., arrested in a liquor raid on a nightclub, Adell Scott, 25, was acquitted of a vagrancy charge when he explained that he had been pushed into the club by cops rushing through the door to stage the raid...