Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guido Corini had less reason than most to be happy about World War II and its aftermath. An Allied bullet left his spine permanently and painfully deformed. An air raid killed his wife and only child. The best peacetime job he could find at 42 was that of broom-wielder and errand boy in a Milanese gas appliance factory. Guido's fellow workers left him strictly alone after finding that their most innocent remarks evoked a tirade of resentful acrimony. His bosses found him sullen. They would have fired Guido long ago had not Plant Director Luigi Daniele insisted...
...Lesbian side. But he really goes to pieces when he finds that the man he shot years ago is alive & kicking. Marcello lives just long enough after that to realize that his whole life has been twisted by "a thing that never happened." Then he dies in an air raid...
...what is this, a frame-up, a raid? Just dropped in, thought this was a drugstore. Wait a minute...
...Guard thought the Pentagon was out to destroy its units and break it up. Ever since Korea, said Major General Ellard A. Walsh, head of the association, the Army has made it a policy to raid the Guard to find replacements for the troops in Korea. Morale was dropping, the Guard was losing its identity. Some units, said Walsh, had been stripped of up to 70% of their key personnel, and had endured levies "far in excess of a fair share." The Guard wanted it stopped. "Wise commanders," said Senator Ed Martin, himself a former commander of Pennsyl vania...
...year was 1944. It was during a bombing raid on London that Sarah Miles first called on God. A near hit blasted the house of their assignation, and after the explosion Sarah found Bendrix' body pinned under the blown-in door. She was sure he was dead (and perhaps he was). She went back to her room, fell on her knees and prayed that he might live. If God would answer her prayer, she promised, she would give him up forever. Before she had risen from her knees, Bendrix, only stunned, walked in. At the sight of him, Sarah...