Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been arrested two years before in a police raid on a bootleg still. Included in the LaMarca file were documents that LaMarca himself had signed in green ink. The agents rushed their evidence to field headquarters, where technicians made their analysis...
Died. Bernard William Cardinal Griffin, 57, Archbishop of Westminster and leader of Great Britain's Roman Catholics, canon lawyer, active supporter and occasional stump-speaker for Labor, who served as an air-raid warden during the Battle of Britain, became the youngest cardinal on his election in 1946; of a heart attack; in New Polzeath. England...
...Nasser declined to sign a military aid agreement with the U.S. "Too much like 'colonization,' " he said. He did not like the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact, either. But it was Israel's 1955 Gaza Strip raid, in which 38 of his soldiers were killed, that Nasser called "the turning point." "Until that moment," said Nasser later, "I felt the possibility of real peace was near." He counterpunched. He had to have more arms, he said...
...balance of De Laveaux's wealth, Mazurkiewicz began to woo his widow. Rebuffed at first, Mazurkiewicz persisted. At last he persuaded her to give him several thousand dollars for safekeeping by warning her that he had a tip that the secret police were about to raid her home. When she asked for the money's return, Mazurkiewicz shot her−and her sister for good measure−and buried them both beneath the concrete floor of his garage...
...space available" basis, i.e., without advance reservations. ¶ The Vatican's Sacred Congregation of the Religious has relaxed the rigors of "enclosure" to which contemplative orders of nuns are subject. Contemplatives are now divided into two classes: "major," permitted outside their convents for such reasons as an air raid, requisition of convent property, voting, surgery, or visits to medical specialists; "minor," permitted outside for these reasons, and also to educate the young. ¶ After eight months of collective bargaining, some 105 Jain priests from 21 temples in Ahmedabad. India won most of their demands (TIME. Nov. 7). The settlement...