Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alexander McPherson, 65, as the new Chief Justice succeeding James Emile Prendergast, 86. Justice Dennistoun used the occasion to rip into the Free Press. He roared that its editorial was "as treacherous as the attack made by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. It can be compared only to a raid on a hospital ship flying the Red Cross or a mercy ship with all lights burning and no means of defense available...
They held it by aggressive commando raids. "The force's most outstanding action was a violent diversionary raid on the town of Sessano during a night when the situation was critical in another sector." So violent was the diversion that it "relieved pressure on the threatened area and made the Germans withdraw their main defense positions a mile or more on a long front"-but the whole job was done by only 100 face-blackened, bazooka-armed U.S.-Canadians...
...Powell occasionally ascertains by a glance through his spare telescope), all undressed and no place to go. Then star-crossed Miss Lamarr falls into the hands of a female astrologer (Fay Bainter) who predicts the coming of an Ideal Lover so convincingly that Miss Lamarr mistakes the handiest air-raid warden (James Craig) for journey...
...were killed, 52 wounded. The bomb shower struck the Jezler Silverware and International Watch factories, the electric-power station, post office, town museum, the Swiss end of the border railway station (the German end was untouched), and destroyed the homes of some 250 people. It was only a small raid. Estimates of property damage ran over $10,000,000 (for which the U.S. Government is liable...
...good-sized raid on Brunswick, home of two Messerschmitt factories, the heavies got into their one real fight of the week. They and their escorts shot down 48 Nazis; that day they lost nine bombers and nine fighters...