Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buried in Eastern Mediterranean retreat, the boss commandoman in London could count for instant offensive action exactly six men and a pariah captain left at home in a shipping snafu. Desperate for any justifying achievement, the general ordered out these seven, with his press officer, on a radar-smashing raid by submarine on a Channel islet...
Rikitake set up a permanent observation station in an old air-raid shelter dug into Mihara's western slope. In October 1951 his instruments showed that the vol cano's magnetism was slowly weakening...
...long career of violence and intrigue, Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti has proved himself a man of many lives. He escaped a Fascist firing squad in 1922 an instant before the rifles went off. A raid by comrades rescued him from a Spanish death sentence in 1939. He survived three assassins' bullets in 1948. Luck and a surgeon who bored four holes in Togliatti's skull saved him after a severe automobile crash...
...prize was established by the Board of the 1943 Class Album, in honor of Lt. Dana Reed '43, who was reported missing over the Adriatic Sea after a bombing raid in World war II. He was Editor-in-Chief of the 1943-44 Album and Executive Editor of the CRIMSON...
...Hear This. In Council Bluffs, Iowa, alarmed because the air-raid sirens of Omaha, just across the Missouri River, do not provide full coverage, Civil Defense Chairman Ernest Woolsey announced his own plans for alerting everyone by 1) sending up a 7,000-ft. column of red smoke, 2) exploding an aerial fireworks bomb, 3) releasing helium-filled balloons, and 4) spraying Council Bluffs with a mixture of powdered sugar and peppermint, so that the warning could be both smelled and tasted...