Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drawings of child life during the war showed air fights and bombs going "Bon!" (Spanish equivalent for "Boom!"). Good sample of what war psychology means to a ten-year-old who knows high explosives better than he knows Dick Tracy was one drawing of an urban air raid in which war planes were carefully distinguished as tri-motor or single-motor jobs, small figures scurried for refuge stations. "Like bugs, poor darlings," said Mr. Weissberger...
VALENCIA--Three members of the crew of the British merchant ship Penchames were wounded seriously today when the vessel was bombed during an insurgent air raid on Valencia. The decks of the British ship were damaged badly by the Insurgent bombs...
...TIME, April 25]. The facts are: after it was announced we were augmenting the NBC Orchestra to full symphonic strength, we received more than 700 applications from instrumentalists. . . . From this number we selected the very finest artists who were free of other contractual obligations. In no sense did we "raid" other symphony orchestras...
...Sabbath calm at turreted Windsor Castle, where King George, Queen Elizabeth and their daughters were spending the weekend, was shattered last week as the castle was "bombed" in a mock air-raid. No airplanes flecked the sky and the Royal Family strolled about the grounds as the "bombs" went off around them. The "bombs": nothing more than mighty firecrackers. The only damage: a window in the Royal Mews which fell clattering to the ground as a "bomb" went off too close. Windsor volunteers, organized in decontamination and first-aid squads, raced over the grounds aiding the fake "victims." All this...
...principal object of the raid was not China's provisional capital, but the arsenal across the river at Hanyang. Although the arsenal was undamaged, a crowded circular area facing the Yangtze was destroyed at the cost of hundreds of lives. To Japan's aerial warriors the raid was in celebration of sacred Emperor Hirohito's 37th birthday...