Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British sahibs refused to accept her. The Sultan's reply: he ordered his gardeners to plant shrubs all over the sahibs' golf course, which was, after all, his own property. In time, the Sultan sent her back to England, and there Lydia was killed in an air raid in the act of buying a fur coat. The Sultan was desolate...
...they were injured during a raid, they said, they would not get workmen's compensation. Teledo Blade, January...
...decree, the Conservative government keeps a strong grip on the cities, but in the countryside, hardy Liberal partisans ("bandits" in the official communiques) wage constant guerrilla war against government outposts. Last week, in one of their boldest strikes yet, "bandidos" made a 3 a.m. New Year's Day raid on the important Palanquero air force base, 75 miles northwest of the capital...
...sharp decline of King Cotton, the "white gold" that brings in most of Egypt's cash and (indirectly) the government's revenues. A worldwide textile slump had filled Egypt's warehouses to bursting with unsold cotton, slowed up all other business and forced Naguib to raid his dwindling treasury for $158 million to bail out growers...
...chief of police in the Westchester village of Mamaroneck (pop. 8,850), Louis Giancola had grown curious about the new board shutters over the windows of an unused gas station on the heavily traveled Boston Post Road. Leading a raid one afternoon last week, Giancola found that the building had been turned into a bristling arms dump: 1,000 rifle grenades, 1,000 bazooka shells, cases of rifle ammunition, napalm powder for making jellied gasoline, 900 parachute grenades with the chutes removed and napalm inserted. The chief was still staring in surprise when a 1953 Packard drove up, bearing Manhattan...