Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partition of their country, the Irish from time to time turn to thoughts of violence. When they do, they think of the Irish Republican Army, an outgrowth of the Sinn Fein movement, which has a romantic place in the Irish imagination. Last week, after the I.R.A.'s audacious raid on a British army barracks just 40 miles west of London, the thoughts grew bolder. "This will bring recruits by the dozen," predicted one Irish observer...
Little was heard of the I.R.A. until last year, when a new generation of young Irishmen joined its secret ranks, thirsting for adventure and impatient of their political leaders' repeated assurances that partition can be abolished "by statesmanship, not force." Their first exploit was to raid the barracks of the Royal Irish Fusiliers in Armagh, Northern Ireland, where they seized 300 guns. Shortly afterwards I.R.A. men broke into the projection rooms of two cinemas in Southern Ireland and forced the operators to flash slides on the screens proclaiming: "Join the I.R.A. We have the guns now." Hundreds joined...
...high-school shop courses throughout the U.S.; the materials, iron and steel, can be found in any junkyard. The inspiration for many of the new space concepts is as easy to find: in the confused welter of the modern cityscape with its forest of TV aerials, bridges, air-raid-siren platforms, metal scaffolding and skyscraper girders. In the hands of U.S. sculptor-welders, this new handling of space has resulted in a myriad of styles from a long roster of native talents...
...landplanes (43,166 ft. in 1930); of a heart attack in his sleep. Annapolisman Soucek, member of a famed Navy flying team (brother Zeus is a retired lieutenant commander turned aircraft-industry executive), was air officer of the carrier Hornet when it launched the Doolittle B-25 raid on Tokyo. in 1942, later commanded Task Force 77 in Korean waters...
...Manhattan's PENNROAD CORP. which has joined with other investors to raid and reorganize sick companies. In 1952 Pennroad with Harris Upham and others secretly started buying stock in South America Gold & Platinum Co., which had a cash kitty of $4,000,000 (about 50% of its net worth), two years later had enough stock to oust the management. Last year Pennroad used South American's kitty to buy another gold company with $6,000,000 more in the till, then merged the two, diversified into cement and pipelines. As a result, South American's profits...