Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Israelis threatened to bomb Cairo in retaliation. Before they got around to it, the Jewish part of Jerusalem suffered its first air raid in six months...
...Mendota, and, as a "rare treat," roast potatoes. A room in North Hall, the dormitory "on the hill," cost $5 a term; furniture "new from the store," another $8. Students had to draw and fetch their own water from the university well, chop down campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance at lectures and recitations. There were few electives; Latin, Greek and mathematics were the solid meat & potatoes of the classical course, and upperclassmen were also fed on rhetoric and mental and moral...
Having suffered two setbacks in its struggle with CBS, NBC now hopes to recoup by making a talent raid on its ex-stepchild, ABC. Said Eiges: "NBC is negotiating with 'the greatest name in the entertainment world, an international figure.' " At week's end, the "name" was revealed-Bing Crosby...
...freedom on the desert; and when Antipas, bored, takes her to Rome, she is disgusted by his dissipations. Their daughter Fara, however, is beautiful, a favorite of both Arabs and Jews. When Antipas divorces his wife and sends wife & child back to the desert, the Arabs plan revenge. They raid Jerusalem, and ride into Herod's palace, only to find that Herod is already dead. The next attempt is Fara's-at eleven she learns of her mother's tragedy, and at 16 disguises herself as a boy, and sets out to kill Antipas, her father...
After several months they were joined by a boy, Daniele, whose middle-class parents had been killed in the raid. Forced to assume adult responsibilities and overwhelmed by more than adult miseries, these four children drift and suffer, snatching moments of happiness, the full meaning of which they are too young-or perhaps already too old-to grasp...