Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next signal, when the incoming aircraft prove "manifestly hostile in intent": Yellow Alert, to set off air-raid sirens, ground all civilian planes. Final signal: Red Alert, meaning World War III. By then, bombs, and perhaps the bombers, would be plunging earthward...
...featuring affairs which New York critics like to call "delightfully naughty." Unfortunately Black-Eyed Susan lacks the subtleties of its predecessor; the author is too consciously daring. Instead of appearing as a sage of the boudoir, he seems more like the little boy who has just pulled a successful raid...
...raid is successful simply because Mr. Shiffrin gets what he is after: a play which bases its humor almost entirely on the more ludicrous aspects of seduction. Late in the first act, Dr. Nicholas Marsh, a dying neurologist played by Vincent Price, is approached by Susan Gillespie, played by Dana Wynter. Black-Eyed Susan, as she is later called, has a strange request: in three years her husband has failed to present her with a child. She wants the doctor to act in loco parentis...
Philadelphia's Democratic Mayor Joseph Clark Jr., about to begin a dinner speech, was summoned to an air-raid drill that just happened to be called by Governor John Fine, who just happens to be Republican. Oregon Republicans muttered darkly that someone-a Democrat, no doubt-had punctured the huge "Ike" balloon they planned to float over Portland. John Roosevelt, barnstorming for the Republicans, had an interesting comment: "I come from a traveling family-and the standards are still set by my mother." In New Jersey, Democrat Adlai Stevenson said that Vice President Richard Nixon had campaigned with "smut...
Three weeks ago the Communists launched a quick raid on the island, then followed it with a heavy artillery plastering. In reply, for seven straight days last week, Chiang's forces attacked the mainland around Amoy with planes, artillery and fire from destroyers and gunboats. F-84 jets from Formosa joined the battle, pouring rockets and napalm on the enemy. The Communists answered with artillery and ack-ack. They did not use their MIGs -reflecting the caution they displayed in Korea, where MIGs did not venture over the front lines...