Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five hundred U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps bombers roared northward over Korea one day this week for the biggest bombing raid of the two-year-old Korean war. Their payload was more than bombs: they carried political explosives...
Tory Benches. The Tory raid was led by Home Secretary Sir David Maxwell Fyfe. To the charge that sponsored TV would eventually reduce British programs to the low level of those in the U.S., Fyfe replied, patriotically: "I am not impressed by analogies from the United States. We have our typical British way of resolving problems of taste . . . We are a much more mature and sophisticated people." Labor's Herbert Morrison interrupted to taunt: "That sounds like anti-Americanism." With feigned astonishment, Fyfe replied: "I am very surprised that the right honorable gentleman should take me to task...
...before the start of the concert. Informality is the keynote of the Boston Pops, and by in termination a balcony-launched blitz of paper airplanes a blackened the skies over the hall. By the close of the concert the orchestra and Fiedler himself were engaging in the paper air-raid...
...Cornell students have been suspended for a year for making a surprise raid on the studio under the camouflage of Hallow'een masks. They seized the transmitting facilities and for several minutes threw listeners into a panic by broadcasting news of Soviet attacks on European cities. The students are protesting the University's action...
...week wore on, the pantie raid-originally a noisy but generally good-natured affair-seemed to get rougher and more destructive. At the University of Washington the raiding mob broke windows at a sorority house to get in. When University of Missouri students raided nearby Stephens and Christian Colleges, the girls fought back with Coke bottles, mops and plumber's helpers. The male rioters broke windows, doors and screens, damaged furniture, threw eggs and potatoes and stole silverware, cigarette lighters and lamp shades...