Word: raid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...strategists in putting Reagan on the defensive on this question is based on two undeniable facts: 1) Despite a series of hot spots around the world during the Carter presidency, no U.S. soldiers have been involved in combat (though they were prepared to fight in the aborted hostage rescue raid into Iran), and 2) Reagan has in recent years repeatedly recommended the use of American military force in various foreign situations. For example, he suggested a U.S. naval blockade of Cuba in response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and said that U.S. soldiers could have been used to ensure...
...getting so that since Truman these Presidents don't do a damn thing. Maybe there's nothing can be done. I always believed in the American dream. But it's not happening. I don't think the President controls the country. On that Iran raid, I could have got a gang here in South Philadelphia and done better than that...
...fathered an illegitimate child. His furious guardian, a family friend, dealt with the indiscretion. But when Merton left for a visit to the U.S. the next summer, the guardian wrote to suggest that Thomas stay there. (The young woman and her son died in a London air raid early in World War II.) The Seven Storey Mountain was so circumspect about Merton's youthful sins that his later conversion seemed oddly lopsided. Furlong's exploration of the Cambridge episode reveals the secret, morally reckless side that the monk would later say "demands a whole life of penance." What...
...explosion overhead. Waiters nervously scurried to put out candles and lanterns. When the patrons went outside to find out what had happened, there were no planes to be seen. As the diners went back inside to resume their meal, the unanimous conclusion was that it was not an Iranian raid at all, but a sonic boom caused by an Iraqi MiG breaking the sound barrier...
Tehran has suffered only infrequent, light air raids by Iraqi planes. When the sirens go off, people on the street carry on as if nothing has happened. Nobody dives for cover: they just look up into the sky, hoping to see a dogfight, even though the state radio and television constantly remind Tehran residents that they should take the air raid signals seriously. Most people have covered the window panes of their homes or apartments with thick black paper or tin foil, in order to keep the lights on during the blackout. The reason is not so much the fear...