Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...great blow was struck at Harvard undergraduates and Faculty last night when Widener Library was hit by a heavy demolition bomb in a regional test air raid...
...meantime Harvard's ARP services, ten in all, which includes fire, medical, gas, water, electric, demolition, bomb reconnaissance groups, ran through their paces in this theoretical raid. Each group made its report to an umpire at the Yard whence they went on their missions. The services were rated on how well they performed their duties and how long it took them to make their report...
About 10 o'clock Robert Haines, Deputy Chief Warden, dismissed his men after the University's first realistic air raid test. Once again dazzled squirrels returned to their nests in the trees and the crinkily brown leaves settled quietly in the Yard...
Robert Haines, Deputy Air Raid Warden, called last night's activities most successful. "From control centers the services showed that they were extremely well constructed," he said. "The wardens were alert, on the job, and turned in their reports promptly. The navy unit located in the Yard was present with its services ready for the sudden emergency. On the whole it shows the ARP personnel at Harvard is well organized to meet an air raid...
...operational planning is careful and accurate and he is in fact one of the Air Forces' great tacticians. When preparing for a raid or holding a planning conference he likes to spread maps on the floor and crawl over them to line up his objectives and make them clear to his crews. Last week when his promotion was announced, Ted was off in the blue somewhere. It seemed a reasonable, if unofficial, guess that the "poop" had been gathered together again, and the circus was again on its travels...