Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secret Service announced that during the last fiscal year it had made the biggest haul of counterfeit U.S. money in history. Reason: an increase in counterfeiting abroad. Of $3,094,000 in seized fake money, $2,145,200 was uncovered in the raid which U.S. agents and French Police made jointly in Marseille...
John Reed, who later became a Soviet saint, rides on a raid with Pancho Villa (1914) and turns in a story that is half good fast Western, half a discussion of human liberty. In the same manner, H. L. Mencken ignores most of the who, what & when of the courtroom testimony in the Scopes evolution trial (1925) and tells the why of the trial in the mores of the backward, superstition-ridden hill folks...
Shortly after noon one day last week, a white DC-3 with U.N. markings carried the last members of Mediator Count Bernadotte's staff from Tel Aviv. A minute and a half later, Tel Aviv's air-raid siren shrilled as an Egyptian reconnaissance plane flew over. War had returned to Palestine...
Showing his town to TIME Correspondent Carl Mydans one afternoon last week, Lieut. Colonel James Hyland, commander of the U.S. Military Government in Fukui, remarked, "Look at it. Ninety-seven percent destroyed in one B-29 raid in 1945, and already 60% rebuilt. No shanties in this city either. We're building for permanency." The earthquake that rocked the city three hours later killed 1,600 people, injured 10,000 more. Mydans, who was uninjured, cabled this report...
...Near an old trading post, which, according to legend, got its name, Ninety Six, when an Indian girl named Cateechee rode 96 miles on horseback to warn her white lover of an Indian raid. When Cateechee learned that he had been killed, she jumped off a high bluff...