Word: raid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though no one knows where it is coming from or how many people are using it, almost anyone can take a "flight" on LSD for $5. Even so, there is no LSD crisis, averred Dr. Donald Louria, head of the State Advisory Council on Drug Addiction, who condemned the raid on Leary's estate as "reprehensible" and "politically motivated...
...operations. The word was that from now on, the B-52s will be used over the north whenever needed. Taking advantage of the traffic piled up behind Mu Gia by the avalanches, U.S. planes periodically bombed and strafed stalled convoys, sending gigantic fireballs into the air and, in one raid, destroying 42 trucks-a record number...
Aspirin has long been the most common cause of the 600,000 accidental poisonings each year among children who raid the medicine chest. It still is, but it now has an unexpected and fast-closing runner-up: oral contraceptives, or "the pills." At some big-city poison-control centers, the pills are being listed in about 25% of childhood poisonings, as against 33% for aspirin...
...hopes, of course, that in a few years there will be no need for such antiquarian arms as tanks, ships and planes. Egypt is developing three brands of short-range missile-the 230-mile-range Al Zafer (Victorious), the 375-mile Al Kaher (Conqueror) and the 500-mile Al Raid (Pioneer). Linked with the nuclear warheads that Nasser hopes to develop or acquire, they might give him the upper hand over Israel, provided...
During long debates about love, war and marriage, the drama loses any sense of immediacy. One situation-ethics crisis concerns whether or not to give London the go-ahead for a bombing raid that may destroy a village of 6,000 people, but Director Mann, curiously enough, makes a greater issue of blowing up a ferryboat. Since no movie can ultimately create real suspense about who won World War II, the only pertinent question becomes How. Tele-mark's answer is to pit Douglas and his right-makes-might pals against a Nazi elite force so inept that...