Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...UNRRA observer reported: "Yungnien resembles a city that has been subjected to an air raid. Debris, broken tiles and brick are strewn over the roadside, with telephone lines down. . . . Negotiations are in progress with the National Government for the cost of reparations. . . . The Roman Catholic Church and the buildings on the property in which we were residing have been 'bombed' 38 times. . . . One large package of dried fish plowed through the roof and landed on the pastor...
...picture tells of its war-and of the world as a whole-in microcosm. On one small part of the front, hideously ill-equipped except in courage, Loyalist airmen prepare-to raid a Fascist airfield and to blow up a Fascist-held bridge. In this tiny, heroic effort, to no ultimate use, they succeed-and are destroyed in the attempt. In slow streams down the rocky mountainside, which are like the streaming of the nation's blood, the people of the region gather to watch, weep and salute, as dead and wounded airmen are brought down from their high...
Said Corwin diffidently of his work: "I hope you'll excuse the pretentious comparison, but I think of the series like Pathfinder planes which precede a raid and light a target. My series may not score a hit, but it may light up an area that has not hitherto been explored. . . . Anyway, it's all there for history, if history is interested...
...Casey" anxiously weighs the probable great losses against the potential great gains, then makes his command decision. Forty planes and 400 men are missing on the first raid. About the time he gets the bad news, along comes the Old Man himself, with a delegation of junketing Congressmen. The Old Man, famed Major General Kane, is so unnerved by circumstances that he almost forgets to put out his well-known jaw for photographers. A noisy Southern Congressman in yellow shoes, lavender shirt and white felt hat is highly indignant at the losses...
...large collection of illegal drugs was seized in a police raid on Parkhurst's residence, 1572 Massachusetts Avenue, immediately after his arrest outside a Newton liquor store one week...