Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cambridge patrolman John Grainger accused Frederick G. Fassett, Jr., associate dean of students, of dropping water bombs on a police car. Another patrolman said he thought Fassett "incited" 200 students to raid Radcliffe in quest of "dainty souvenirs...
Thus, ten years, four months, 21 days after the commander of Patrol Wing Two at Ford Island broadcast: "Air raid, Pearl Harbor! This is no drill," the war between the U.S. and Japan came to an official end. Japan promptly started a nine-day holiday to commemorate 1) the Peace Treaty, 2) Emperor Hirohito's 51st birthday, 3) May Day, 4) Japan's Memorial Day, 5) Japan's war-renouncing Constitution, 6) Children's Day. Headlined Tokyo's Nippon Times: LITTLE SIGNS OF JOY; PEOPLE IN QUANDARY...
Reichert, ill with the flu, left his bed to help. At police headquarters he turned the keys of his car over to a policeman, "in case something happens to me." In an old air-raid shelter near by, Reichert, assisted by two cops, gingerly opened the parcel and took out Volume L-Z of a standard German encyclopedia. "Hmm," wondered a cop, "why would anyone send the Chancellor an encyclopedia?" A moment later, a blinding flash hurled him to the wall; two hours later, Reichert was dead from the bomb meant for Chancellor Adenauer...
...losses by U.S. Sabres. As fast as the F-80s got back to base, they were reloaded and refueled for follow-up missions; altogether the wing flew 250 sorties. The fighter-bombers knocked out 32 Red antiaircraft positions, dropped some 33,000 gallons of napalm in the biggest fire raid...
Jesse's troubles began when he picked up a white child of six or seven who had somehow escaped during an Indian raid. Keeta was a nuisance, but she also became a wonderful, silent audience for the old man's boastful, preposterous yarns. Author Russ is at her best describing the uneasy but affectionate relationship between the two, the child's awareness of the 'Glades' endless beauties and dangers as she grows up. Few writers have had much luck in trying to describe a lonely child of nature in a natural setting. Author Russ does...