Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Slipping under destroyers and other Japanese ships, the sub makes its destination and gets the stuff. There is also an operation performed by a pharmacist's mate under the sea with kitchen knives, the sinking of an aircraft carrier and a destroyer, the U.S. air force in its first raid on Japan, and the stabbing of a crew member by a Japanese...
...Huks hold the military initiative in the Philippines. They raid villages, kill landlords and officials, and stage sneak attacks on Philippine army and constabulary units. A few weeks ago they boldly raided the U.S. air base at Clark Field in an unsuccessful attempt to steal weapons...
More than a year ago burgeoning CBS made a lightning raid on the talent roster
...Paris newsstands and burned them. Last month the morning paper had to barricade its doors and windows as 1,500 Communists rioted outside. They had made the most of the opportunity to protest against publication of the memoirs of Nazi Storm Trooper Otto ("Scarface") Skorzeny, who led the paratroop raid to release Mussolini...
...Throw Them Out." Such teaching produces the hooligan bands that raid Western Berlin and smear Communist slogans on the walls. It organizes the grinning gangs that stand on Potsdamer Platz and chant songs about how the FDJ would throw the "splitters of Germany" (i.e., the Western Allies) out of Berlin...