Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bedroom Raid." As the raiding party fumbled with a screen door, a .22 rifle cracked inside the dark house. Mrs. Gehr toppled over, dead, with a bullet hole between her eyes. The rifle cracked again, and the detectives-one of them wounded in the arm-charged off in frantic retreat. Mrs. Matthews jumped out a rear window and ran, too-according to tabloid reports, completely naked...
...pointed out, however, that in case of an air raid, it would not be likely that many students would have time to get to the libraries...
Several thousand people could be crowded into the bowels of Lamont in the event of an air raid, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University Library, told the CRIMSON last night. "It would be pretty stuffy," he admitted, "but it could be done...
...long has been faith in the value of competition," wrote Justice Harold Burton for the majority. "Congress did not seek by the Robinson-Patman Act either to abolish competition or so radically to curtail it that a seller would have no substantial right of self-defense against a price raid by a competitor . . . The seller may well find it essential, as a matter of business survival, to meet the price rather than lose the customer." The Supreme Court gave orders for FTC to determine whether the price cut had been made in "good faith." Since it is almost impossible...
...Phat Diem's southern border, where mountains leap suddenly from the rice plain like rocks from the sea, the Viet Minhs occasionally raid the bishop's territory. But so far there has been no big attack. Bui Chu and Phat Diem still manage to maintain their independent existence. At the back of Monsignor Le Huu Tu's episcopal palace, the lathes grind out crude grenades, mortars and one Rube Goldberg contraption, proudly described by one of the priests as "our flying bomb...