Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attorney general, he organized the state's wartime civilian defense; backed exclusion of Japanese from the West Coast; staged a dramatic raid with a fleet of Fish & Game Commission boats on four offshore gambling ships, had them closed down after an all-night battle with fire hoses...
...Salonika and of Rubislaw, 81, onetime Chief of the British Imperial General Staff (1926-33); after long illness; in London. A veteran of Kitchener's campaign in the Sudan and a general officer since 1913, doughty old "Uncle George" served in World War II as an air-raid warden...
Through the local priest they have established an unofficial truce with the Nazis. When the German general plans a "raid" he tips off the priest, who in turn warns the partisans. The eleven members of the "23rd Corps" scatter to the woods until the "raid" is canceled and then return to" their village. The formalities of war are observed, but no blood is shed...
Soon after him arrives Slater, a loutish newspaperman modeled after characters in Evelyn Waugh's early novels. Slater wants a raid even if it means the death of Bullivant and the 23rd Corps-just so long as he gets his scoop. He bullies Bullivant into bullying the partisans. to agree to fight. His scoop is ruined when, in a farcical scene, 19 other newspapermen descend on the camp to cover the raid. Comic fiasco turns to tragedy: the partisans attack, only to suffer casualties from the Allies, who have in the meantime taken over the area. Men have died...
...Instead, which looked like a folded-up air raid instruction poster, was an unhappy combination of surrealism and existentialism. Publisher John Myers wanted a monthly magazine which would be "hard, virile, masculine, and which would raise difficult questions that had never been asked before...