Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lights revolving and pistols at the ready, the colonists, including whiskery Elder Joseph Jessop and his two 21-year-old sons, George and Tom, were drawn up in the school yard in their Sunday best, singing America and politely waiting to be arrested. Said one Short Creek leader: "This raid will give us $10 million worth of publicity." The governor hoped that most of the men would not only get prison terms but fines, which might enable the state to attach their property and raze the town. But polygamists are difficult to convict. Perhaps the Short Creek colony was finished...
...life. Last year the legislature appropriated a $50,000 emergency fund to be used in the project, and State Attorney General Ross F. Jones began planning a grandiose attack. Secret agents, some disguised as movie scouts, drifted into Short' Creek. Last month the great "Love-nest raid" began to shape up in all its wondrous detail...
...caravans. One string of cars swung into Nevada and Utah to approach from the north; the other cut across the Arizona strip to hit Short Creek from the east. An eclipse of the moon cloaked their movements. But as it turned out, the Short Creekers knew all about the raid, and had stationed boys along the road to shoot off dynamite and thus announce its arrival...
...Trek. The ascent had been planned with the thoroughness of a commando raid: vast preparation for a brief but crucial hour. The expedition assembled in March at Katmandu, capital of Nepal. Its leader was John Hunt, 43, a grizzled British colonel whose knowledge of mountains (Kangchenjunga, K-36) and men (in World War II, he commanded Pathans, Gurkhas, Dogras and Scots) quickly won respect...
...rich A.F.L. Meat Cutters and the C.I.O. Packinghouse Workers are getting ready to sign a "no raid" agreement calling for joint negotiations with the nation's meat packers. For the packers, long accustomed to trimming down the unions' wage and welfare demands by playing one off against the other, it will mean tougher bargaining...