Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...verdict on the grim events of the night of Oct. 14, when Israeli armed forces killed 53 Jordanians and razed the village of Kibya, came late one afternoon last week in Manhattan. The U.N. Security Council, 9 to 0, voted "the strongest censure" of the raid and held Israel entirely responsible. Two nations abstained: Russia, which is busily wooing both Arabs and Israelis, and Lebanon, which sought a stronger resolution...
...source of power and place it so deep under ground that it will survive an atomic-war, and rain-water for domestic and industrial needs; an object of my invention is to supply sufficient electricity for all heating, cooking, lights and power for any individual home, farm, camp, air-raid-shelter, city or state; he object of the said authoritative opinion being the correctness my formula (M.X.L.) for a fissionable power equation. Herman A. Cruse, 342 St. Marks Avenue, Brooklyn...
Though far less fortunate than the plunder of Grieg a few years back, the raid on Borodin produces a few trophies. AT worst, there are atmospheric inter-Iudes of Hollywood Baghdad music, which permit the "Princesses of Ababu" to cavort around a palace pool obviously built in manual training class. At best, there are agreeable melodies with out-rageous lyrics, and two lively numbers, "He's In Love" and the first act finalo. In any case, the music helps Kismet to whirl with amiable vulgarity through thirteen scenes, and the New York businessman will probably find the show a godsend...
Results favored the Ace overwhelmingly: over ninety percent of the recruits said they preferred it is case of a raid...
...piece," he explained. "The victims of nerve gas raid would probably be panic stricken, or at least in too great a hurry to put together a hypodermic needle with anything like the professional skill and speed needed...