Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...authorities sought ways to cheer the dour people. Amid Berlin's debris 72 movie theaters kept open; they held high priority in air-raid repair. A flower show in the capital featured half a million tulips. The Nazi Party stepped up weekend sports; Berliners had a choice of boating on the Wannsee, trotting races at Mariendorf, steeplechasing at Karlshorst, football, tennis and hockey matches. The radio urged: "The human body and soul need the stimulating reactions of the laughing muscles. He who cannot laugh lives in vain...
...From Stockholm, TIME Correspondent John Scott cabled: "Serious armed clashes between SS domestic troops and armament workers have occurred in Germany during the past six weeks. Troops have tried to prevent workers from going to air-raid shelters on the approach of enemy planes. There have been several hundred casualities, notably in Dresden, Hamburg, Berlin and Osnabrück. But the importance of these clashes should not be overestimated. There will have to be many more shootings and casualties before disaffection spells the Government's collapse...
...have a fiührer complex about Mr. Hutchins . . . the best and wisest man I know. ... I think he is bored running [the] colossal war plant [which] the University of Chicago now is. ... So ... he decided to stage a one-man commando raid on the unguarded shrine of Let-Well-Enough-Alone. ... I believe that Mr. Hutchins is a menace to all the sacred precepts that have produced the glorious civilization we are now enjoying...
This week naval airmen heard a rumor about Marc Mitscher that had them quietly simmering. Wizened, solemn little Admiral Mitscher, who has been a naval airman since 1916, who commanded the carrier Hornet, "Shangrila" of the Tokyo raid, who commanded the carrier task forces which spectacularly raided Truk, Guam, Palau, is due-said the rumor-to be yanked out of the Pacific...
...Britain's own expert is 32-year-old Sir Nelson King Johnson of the air Ministry. He and his staff were consutled for every Commando raid and for the landings in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Sir Nelson believes weather secrets are hidden in the upper air, uses a special balloon apparatus for readings up to 50,000 feet...