Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...microphone, opened his mouth to sing, and a grenade exploded among the dancers. From darkness surrounding the brightly lighted open-air café came the flash and rattle of automatic rifle fire. Four Jews were killed, twelve wounded. Survivors said the attackers were Arabs. If so, the raid was the first serious attack by Arabs on Jews since...
...traditional time (4 a.m.) on the traditional day for executions (Tuesday), the British hanged three Jewish terrorists in the Acre prison. The three had been captured at the same prison twelve weeks before when they had released other terrorists in a costly raid...
...above all 3) placing his hands on a lady customer's shoulders (Chinese barbers consider this a grave breach of professional ethics). "We will fight unto the death," declared the barbers, "until the insulting parts of the film are cut." They threatened to smash the film studios, raid theaters showing the film, go on strike...
Jogjakarta, the Indonesian capital, situated near the center of rich Java, was blacked out following a raid by four Dutch planes on its airport...
...England, the Old had the edge. A 1940 air raid left 14th Century Coventry Cathedral a Gothic shell; in 1944, while bombs rained on England, a dispute started raging on how Coventry should be rebuilt. Sir Giles Gilbert Scott, 67, a Roman Catholic, and one of England's foremost ecclesiastical architects, readapted a design which the Church of England had used but forgotten so long that it seemed new: a cruciform cathedral with the high altar at the center of the cross. This design provided sections of the cathedral where non-Anglicans could worship by themselves. Most of England...