Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...self-appointed censors of NBC, that radio's organizational set-up might not be completely perfect. Other programs, attempting to extract laughs from the incident, were likewise gagged. In New York this week one John Sumner, of the Society for Supression of Vice, led three detectives in a raid on the offices of Random House publishers. For reasons best known to himself he ordered confiscated all ten available copies of a widely unknown book of poems, "The Blue Hen's Chickens," and served a summons on a clerk who was so unacquainted with the book that she inquired...
...Gruner, Hungary-born British Army veteran who participated in a terrorist raid on a Palestine police post (TIME, Feb. 17), was the first to go. The others-23-year-old Eliezer Kashani, 32-year-old Mordecai Alkashi, 24-year-old Dov Rosenbaum-followed him to the gallows (they had been found with guns and whips in their possession soon after a British major had been flogged...
...Yorkers queued up at vaccination centers. At week's end, Mayor William O'Dwyer decided to "pour in every available piece of machinery and manpower to insure that every person in the city is vaccinated." He summoned the city's 175,000 wartime air-raid wardens to ring doorbells, set up free vaccination centers in police stations, health centers, hospitals...
William Sansom, 35, wrote these stories while serving as an air-raid fireman in London during the war. His Westminster in War, a carefully documented record of what the blitzes did to the city, will be published in England next month. Sansom looks like an Oxford oarsman and lives in a decayed house in northwest London where he is now working "only when I feel like it" on a book of short stories about Corsica...
Dignitaries and former Resistance leaders last week plodded across muddy fields to the remote hamlet of Bruneval in Normandy. There, at a ceremony to honor a British commando raid, Charles de Gaulle came out of retirement and opened a campaign to recapture power...