Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kids, at least are frivolous enough to raid female schools, to pinch pantic girdles, to cut their hair in weird apache designs and tear down goal posts. By my observation, every European student thinks he is an embryo William Pitt, Garibaldi or Clemenceau with overtones of Stalin and wants everybody to learn about it at the top of his lungs...
...their search for an antidote, Army doctors found atropine, a derivative of belladonna, a deadly poison, in 1947-48. Still, two problems plagued the Army: preventing panic and administering the antidote efficiently in cast of a raid...
...great Communist offensive in Indo-China, which had been expected since the monsoons ended in October, has not materialized, probably because General Henri Navarre's aggressive spoiling operations have kept the Viet Minh off balance. Last week Navarre launched the biggest airborne attack since the Langson border raid in July, this time against the Communist base at Dienbienphu. Between the Black River and Laos. This time it was not a hit-and-run raid; the French meant to seize Dienbienphu and hold...
...Spent 18 minutes with Mamie and members of his staff in a new, $750,000 White House air-raid shelter during a mock A-bomb raid. Afterward, Civil Defense officials reckoned that, had the raid been real, the President would have survived, although 120,000 Washingtonians in the neighborhood would have been casualties...
...Hamburg. Mayor Brauer's task looked impossible: in three blockbusting nights, British bombers had leveled half the city; 300,000 of its 560,000 dwellings were destroyed, more than in all Britain. Huge mounds in the city cemetery were a memorial to Hamburg's 80,000 air-raid victims; the once-busy harbor lay choked with 3,000 wrecks...