Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result of a police raid on overnight parkers in the vicinity of the Houses, the dawn broke yesterday morning with red tickets fluttering from 25 or 30 windshield wipers along Dunster, Holyoke, Plimpton, and Mill Streets. Not only is the usual "number has been taken" clause there, but stamped on the bottom, it asks the bearer to present the tag at Traffic Division within 24 hours--before 5.30 o'clock...
...almost completed, the Shanghai front was quiet last week, though planes and big guns brought the International Settlement again under fire. There were fewer casualties than usual. After five weeks of bloody experience Chinese had finally learned that the streets are no place to be in during an air raid...
Keeping out of the streets was not enough for the harassed citizens of Nanking, 195 mi. up the Yangtze. Giving warning to all foreigners to quit the city at once, Japan prepared for a mass bombing raid aimed at the total destruction of Nanking with a dress rehearsal in which the city was bombed mercilessly for two hours, with little retaliation from either Chinese anti-aircraft batteries or planes...
...delayed for a fews hours, I hired a scared izvoztchik (cabby) to drive me around the downtown part of the city. Fresh shell scars on the public buildings and a great pit in the public square containing several hundred lime-covered bodies were mute evidences of a recent raid by Semenov. Farther east our train was forced to spend a day at Chita because the single track east of there had been torn up in a clash between Bolshevik and Semenov troops. When track repairs had been completed, our train crept slowly on into White Russian territory...
...feet of this hastily, dangerously made record had been ground out by cameramen under fire or within a few minutes after shellburst or bomb-explosion. They tell, as pitilessly as only the camera can, what war means to the flesh it tortures. Mobs stream to shelter from an air raid. After a shellburst in a crowded street, corpses bright with blood and rows of grimy bodies, barely distinguishable from the dusty wreckage, clutter the smashed sidewalk. Stinking human garbage (the street-cleaners have tied handkerchiefs around their mouths and noses), big chunks of it insufficiently wrapped, is dumped on open...