Word: raid
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...displaced Jews 8,000 sq. mi. of land to form the new state of Israel and sent 1,300,000 Palestinian refugees drifting into neighboring Arab countries. The bitterness engendered by that partition seems to have deepened rather than dissipated over the years, and Israel's raid on the Jordanian frontier village of Samu (TIME, Nov. 25) has fired it to the danger point. Warned Jordan's King Hussein: "The tensions built up by the events of the last two weeks have created the most explosive situation since the Suez crisis of 1956, and the results could...
...county supervisors decided to give tuition grants to the private schools, summoned white parents and parceled out the money while a Negro parents' suit to bar the grant was pending in the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Negroes called this action a "midnight raid on the county treasury," and the court ordered restoration of the funds. Now that the Supreme Court has refused to review the judgment, the supervisors will have to raise the cash or go to jail...
...Jordan's beleaguered King Hussein, having to contend with Israel last week proved less of a problem than dealing with the Arab world. In the wake of Israel's four-hour retaliatory raid against the Jordanian border village of Samu (TIME, Nov. 25), Hussein suddenly found himself criticized by prac tically every Arab country and buffeted at home by the seething discontent of his people, most of whom favor a much tougher line toward Israel than the moderate King has seen fit to take...
...bandido, Emiliano Zapata, against the government of the opportunist Venustiano Carranza. Along the way, Villa's cavalry of bearded, wild-eyed "Dorados" (Golden Ones) shot up and looted villages, left the bodies of priests strung on barbed wire; they later defied the U.S. by killing 19 in a raid on a New Mexico border town, eluding a punitive force led by General John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing...
Tony Hendra was born in London in an air raid during the German blitz, and his first toy was a piece of shrapnel that landed in his cradle. Nic Ullett, also born in London, was soon evacuated to the countryside, where he was given the privileges of living in a corrugated-iron hut and attending school with six other boys and 65 girls. By the time the two of them met a couple of decades later at Cambridge, their thoughts had somehow acquired a satirical hue. Written down, polished, and delivered onstage with maniacal precision, their reflections on the state...