Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...means of dealing with the situation in case the deterrents fail, we must be able to counter . . . any aggressive movement, whether by a hostile army, navy or air force. We must have weapons and concepts suited to the needs of every level of military operation between the border raid and all-out global war . . . This means a level of conventional armaments adequate to meet the needs of our national security in the absence of atomic weapons...
...ever on the alert for stories there. One night last summer, the Louisville Courier-Journal got a solid telephone tip about Newport, and sent Photographer George Bailey hustling to the scene. The tip: Glenn Schmidt's Playtorium, a plush dining-drinking-gambling-bowling club, was about to be raided. The leader of the raid was Newport's Detective Jack Thiem, who had hired 16 private detectives in Louisville, 106 miles from Newport, to help...
...Bailey's civil rights. Another grand jury indicted Gugel for "nonfeasance of duty," i.e., failing to suppress gambling and prostitution. The same jury also indicted Detective Thiem, the raider, on charges of breaking the law himself by having an interest in a brothel, and said he staged the raid on the Playtorium to retaliate for earlier raids on houses he was protecting...
...Bridge. Though somewhat more literate, the story is just as juicy as most U.S. radio serials. The hero, Haruki, and the heroine, Machiko, meet on the night of May 24, 1945 during a great B-29 firebomb raid on Tokyo. Caught for a few breathless minutes on the Sukiyabashi bridge, they agree to meet on the same spot six months later-if they are still alive. Haruki shows up on the appointed day, but his girl has been sent away by her wicked uncle and forced into a marriage with a government official. When she and her husband return...
College rules in the old days also forbade eating in town. This, combined with the fact that freshmen were obliged to run errands for upperclassmen, known as "the masters," created a big problem. For, since the food situation was constantly bad, the upperclassmen demanded that their freshmen fags raid the chicken coops of local farmers...