Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into umbrous, ill-ventilated underground caverns, seemingly as necessary to life as the air-raid shelters where some of the visitors were born, thousands of bemused young Londoners squeeze nightly to stomp and holler their approval of Britain's latest musical mania: U.S. rock 'n' roll, commercial hillbilly and folk music, warmed over and juiced up in a mishmash called skiffle...
...PRESS) : Mayor Terry D. Schrunk, 44, longtime (1949-56) Democratic county sheriff until he won the top job with Teamsters' backing last fall. The charges: 1) accepting, while still sheriff, a bribe "in amount unknown" (commonly put at $500) from Teamster-linked Gambler Clifford Bennett during a raid on Bennett's after-hours joint in 1955, and 2) perjury before the grand jury by denying he took the bribe. Testifying before the McClellan committee, Schrunk had also denied the bribery charge despite sworn testimony by eyewitnesses, demanded a lie-detector test, stalked out when the questions...
...among readers. What it did not expect was a violent counterattack from its rival daily, the Oregon Journal (circ. 181,489). Soundly beaten on the story and unable to lay hands on the tape-recorded evidence, the Journal sent a reporter along with D.A. Langley on a hoked-up raid on an Elkins aide who had some tapes in his possession. The tapes were turned over to the Journal reporter, who allowed the Teamster organizer to copy them, and were then handed to a federal grand jury, which promptly indicted Elkins for wiretapping. The Journal ran fevered "expos...
...night in December 1943, after an Allied bombing raid on German fortifications in San Lorenzo, Carlo failed to return. Fido waited all night under the bus parked in the square, and he went back to meet the bus again on the next night and the next and the next. Each night from then on, as 13 years passed, Fido met the bus from San Lorenzo and waited patiently under it for his master. The local butcher gave him meat and bones to support his vigil. Villagers greeted him with cheering words. Sometimes, on chilly nights, the bus company even permitted...
...last week, when veteran Court house Reporter Haig Anlian, 38, asked for a twelve-week leave from his $104-a-week newspaper job to work as a candidate's pressagent for $300 a week. Journal Editor Paul A. Tierney refused. "I won't stand for a wholesale raid on my staff," snapped Tierney, 62, who transferred from Newhouse's Long Island Star-Journal to the Jersey Journal only eight months...