Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drank too much and talked too boisterously at the ultra-respectable Wamsutta Club-to which he could never have been elected, but in which he automatically achieved membership as mayor. Worse, he fought with the district attorney, who finally embarrassed him by engineering a raid of New Bedford gambling joints by a small army of 121 state cops. Even then, Mayor Peirce might have got by if he had not turned, in rough and highhanded fashion, upon a police lieutenant named Alfred Figueira, who was the head of his vice squad and his chief partner in crime...
...dark context of Kenya's bushfire "emergency," this was a mere border skirmish. But Simba, a wily, war-scarred veteran with at least one shattered police post to his credit, chose to lead the raid in person...
CI.O. and A.F.L. staffers have drawn up a no-raiding pact for their top men to sign. In the last two years, the two unions have appealed to NLRB 1,246 jurisdictional disputes, involving 366,470 workers. By the time their organizational, legal and other expenses were paid, the unions figured that every member captured in a raid cost a whopping...
Hugo Werner was a tough, bossy German kid who liked to play cowboys and Indians. When his father was killed in an Allied air raid on Munich in 1943, twelve-year-old Hugo was shipped off to a children's camp in the country. There, as Hitler's armies crumbled, dark-eyed little Hugo recruited an army of his own; he called it the Panther Bande. One morning last week Hugo Werner, 22, and seven of his Panthers shuffled awkwardly into a Munich courtroom and went on trial for a series of three cold-blooded murders...
...picture, Landfall has remarkably little action. Instead, it concentrates on characterization, and its people, from admirals to air-raid wardens, are al ways plausible. The lieutenant (Michael Denison) is no idealized figure; he is young, cocky and rather callow. The unglamorous Portsmouth barmaid (Patricia Plunkett) with whom he falls in love is as ordinary as their romance. Director Ken (Robin Hood) Annakin has made Land fall into a simple, straightforward, almost old-fashioned story with some richly convincing detail. By making real and affecting both the fallibility and the nobility of ordinary people in a time of crisis, the film...