Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yankee Squadron" of famed U. S. aviators headed by Bert Acosta, pilot of Admiral Byrd's transatlantic flight, at the last minute abandoned plans for a whoopee party with their wives at Biarritz, swank French resort across the Spanish frontier. They decided that they would rather raid Burgos, Generalissimo Franco's headquarters. The hundreds of incendiary bombs that they dropped on White hangars and munition dumps they jokingly described as "Messages of Christmas Cheer for the boys in Burgos...
...city detectives had gone around the corner for a cup of coffee at 1:15 a. m. on the appointed day, when Chief John Edgar Hoover suddenly appeared with ten G-men, proposed an immediate raid. Refusing to wait for police headquarters to be notified, the No. 1 G-man and his squad rapped on Brunette's door, got a splatter of bullets for answer. For an hour they pumped revolver, rifle and submachine-gun bullets, tossed tear gas bombs into the apartment. Its Venetian blinds ignited. Firemen came, and were caught in the cross fire between desperado...
...bullying, stupid army man named Hodges makes a blunder, the colonists put in three weeks' labor building their cabins the wrong way, are ordered to tear them down and rebuild according to specifications. Ill-humor reaches a peak with a shortage of fruit, vegetables and salt; a raid on the commissary is nipped by Hodges who has turned one colonist into a spying stoolpigeon...
Joke v. Blow. Lacking though it is in humor, the Japanese Army knows that any joke can be answered by a sufficiently heavy blow. Last week the Japanese Army proper did not move, but Japanese sent 30,000 of their puppet Manchukuoan troops and Mongolian allies on a thundering raid from Chahar, northwest of Peiping, into Suiyuan. The invaders were equipped with tanks, armored cars and battle planes of Japanese manufacture. Actual news from this remote region was scant but early and Chinese-censored dispatches made world headlines thrilling to thousands of Chinese laundrymen and other expatriate Celestials: CHINESE DEFEAT...
Those few benighted souls who were still in Cambridge at 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon were startled by the steady drone of what sounded like a mammoth fire siren, a signal for an air raid, or perhaps even a recruiting call for the next war. Puzzled students wondered where the fire was and how big it must have been to evoke such an awe-inspiring noise...