Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boyd Killingsworth, a gangly youth, admitted that the raid had originated at a meeting of the Adamsville klavern presided over by Brownie's brother. "We stopped by the highway and robed up," said Killingsworth. At the McDanal house, "I helped direct traffic...
Dartmouth started making real noise with its visits in the twenties. It was then that the Indian fanatics centered their merry-making in hotel lobby riots. But by the late 'thirties this brand of deviltry disappeared in favor of the more inviting Yard raid...
...Bellolampo raid caused shrieks of rage in the Italian press. Communist papers featured a Tass dispatch calling Giuliano the tool of imperialistic foreign elements who wished to make the island a base for military operations. Minister of Interior Mario Scelba flew to Palermo and cleaned out the whole Montelepre police command. Himself a Sicilian, Scelba began a wholesale transfer from Montelepre of native Sicilians...
Even the cops take a flyer now & then. The morning after the Rodriguez raid, Mexico City's daily Novedades reported that some of the heaviest gaming in town had been going on in the offices of the Seventh Police Precinct...
Last week the people of Venice noted the 100th anniversary of what they believed to be the first air raid in the history of war. Unlike the people of Hiroshima in 1945, the Venetians of 1849 had plenty of warning that something bizarre was coming off. The Austrians, who perpetrated the deed, allowed rumors of a "secret weapon" to reach Venice in advance, and one Venetian artist drew a picture of what he thought would happen (see cut) and peddled it in the streets...