Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full of people who had never been secret agents, movie starlets, U.S. Senators, atomic scientists or stock manipulators. Millions of them had never sat on a flagpole, made the headlines in a love-nest raid or lost a $14,000 Russian sable stole; almost as many had yet to sniff cocaine, snap at a waiter in the Stork Club, sue somebody for libel, own a Jaguar 3½-liter convertible, or pour a champagne cocktail over a blonde's shoulder blades...
...Then you can enter," said the policeman, "but I must search you first." He found a pistol which he promptly took. "I have a pistol permit from your own police chief," Kwon shouted. The policeman laughed. "Nobody except us is going to be armed during this raid," he said. "Enter now if you like...
...weeks, only 500 U.S. troops will remain to train and advise the new South Korean army which faces the big, well-organized Communist army of North Korea along the 38th Parallel. Without internal stability the South might soon be easy pickings for the North. This week's raid was the sharpest episode yet in the struggle between the Korean administration and its legislature over how to achieve that stability...
...National Assembly claims that the administration never really enforced the national traitors' law against Koreans who collaborated with the Japanese. An Assembly committee established its own jails, courts, investigators and armed police and hauled in collaborators, including high officials of the regular police. Last week's police raid disrupted this Assembly "law enforcement" system...
Next day at the Capitol, assemblymen charged police with torturing men arrested during the raid. Police set free 22 prisoners, of whom 16 had skull injuries or broken ribs or punctured eardrums...