Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...haven for Chinese politicians and intellectuals who wanted good books and elegant conversation - in Chinese, which the Ambassador found "very straightforward" to learn "because it has no grammar at all." In Russia he served for three wearing, critical years. He first met Stalin accidentally in a Kremlin air raid shelter. Like anyone else, the Premier thawed to the Clark Kerr personality. In the summer months the sporty, informal Scot startled the Russians by dictating reports in the Embassy backyard, stripped to the waist. But they understood and admired his blend of closemouthed diplomacy and forthright candor. In the recent negotiations...
...fighting marshal and Ann Dvorak the beautiful, bad-tempered barroom singer. Against a background alive with neighing, gunfire and the sound of crashing wagons, Marshal Scott states the theme by drawling that thar ain't no justice in Abilene Town. He's dead right: hard-drinking cattlemen raid the village every few weeks, brawl in the bars and take pot shots at the God-fearing homesteaders who have settled on the town's outskirts...
...memorandum was placed in evidence showing that Captain Zacharias had personally warned Rear Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, in the summer of 1941, that the Japs would start war with a sneak air raid on Pearl Harbor on a weekend-"probably Sunday morning...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Lord Keyes (Roger John Brownlow Keyes), 73, doughty, fire-&-ice British naval hero of the famed World War I raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend, organizer of World War II's "butcher-and-bolt" Commandos (his son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, was killed in a Commando raid on Rommel's African HQ); of cardiac asthma; at his estate in Buckingham...
...fight with the newly created and rival All-America Conference. Last week, the All-Americas considered New Orleans for a tenth city on their coast-to-coast circuit, admitted giving ex-National Leaguer (and part-owner of Yankee Stadium) Dan Topping $100,000 to join their fold, promised to raid National League player rosters...