Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mock hydrogen bomb raid will be held in 50 American cities on June 15, Radcliffe Commencement day, and will extend through the morning of June 16, when Harvard exercises are scheduled...
While Cambridge is not one of the cities definitely named to participate in the test, it is on a special list of cities, seven of which will be notified that they are "under attack" only at the first air raid warning...
Before the city could be evacuated, Burke said several questions would have to be settled. "We have no definite idea how to move children out of school buildings speedily in event of a raid," he said. Burke did not make any specific references to Harvard...
...when the mania exhausted his patience, Quebec's Premier Alexandre Taschereau ordered provincial police to raid the halls where marathons were being held. So far there has been no hint of another crackdown. A few Catholic priests have preached about irreligious berceurs who stick to their rockers and miss Sunday Mass. But Premier Maurice Duplessis, who was at home last week coddling a cold, was reportedly planning no action. "What could Mr. Duplessis say?" asked Solicitor General Antoine Rivard. "He's rocking himself at the moment...
Civil Defense plans to organize air raid wardens in the University have been temporarily halted because of government warnings this week on the danger of radiation "fall-out" from hydrogen bombs, Edmund M. Burke, Cambridge Civil Defense Director, said yesterday...