Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Until last fall, Spokane's official air-raid siren was a 10? plastic gadget hanging on a hook in the police radio room. The idea was to broadcast its thin wail to the squad cars, which in turn would sound their sirens. Since then, Spokane has acquired three new Chrysler airhorns...
Much of Israel is like Mishmar Ayalon-an armed frontier land where the settlers live in constant dread of a shot, a raid, a sudden grenade. The danger breathes down your neck as you drive to Jerusalem through a road cleft into a gorge, under the eyes and weapons of Jordanians perched on the hills. You feel it on the narrow-gauge railway that winds into the city alongside Jordan territory so close that sunflower seeds spat from the train windows fall onto Arab soil. Where Jordan bulges westward, the Israeli beachhead is barely eight miles wide. It takes less...
College and Radcliffe students may be fined $500 and sent to jail for six months if they again neglect a Cambridge air raid drill the way they did Saturday, city civil defense director Edmund M. Burke declared last night...
Students were continually crossing Broadway near Memorial Hall and Burr Lecture Hall while the air raid sirens sounded, and they deliberately disobeyed orders to take cover, Burke said. "Apparently the fellows get a kick out of laughing in the face of the law," he added...
...Memorial Hall area was the only place in Cambridge where air raid rules were violated, Burke reported. Behavior in Harvard Square was perfect, he said...