Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...city room on Union Street with a tip. Richter said that he knew of a saloon being used as a front for a brothel, where prostitutes were caring for a homeless baby who had been left on the bar. Next day the Item guided police on a raid and front-paged the story of the baby and arrest of four prostitutes and the brothel keeper. Richter then told the Item that he could supply other information. Richter and Item reporters went to work, took a tape recording of an interview with a prostitute who said she had worked for people...
...Desert Rats is at its best when it ditches its contrived plot and concentrates on hard-hitting scenes of desert warfare pieced out with real newsreel shots (e.g., a Commando raid on a Nazi ammunition dump, Rommel's tanks attacking under cover of a sandstorm). Unusual linguistic touch: Actor Mason, who spoke flawless English as Rommel in The Desert Fox, this time affects a rich Teutonic accent...
With the raucous wail of an air-raid siren, spring came all of a sudden last week to Princeton, NJ. Lights flickered off in dormitory windows, and students poured outdoors into the practice blackout. Tentatively, someone touched off a few firecrackers. "We want Joe Sugar!" chanted a few campus politicians as they tried to turn the excitement into a rally for Joseph A. Sugar of Bexley, Ohio, Ivy Club member and candidate for president of the senior class...
Students in class are to continue with their regular activities during this morning's practice air-raid, the Civil Defense Advisory Committee announced...
Classes at the University will continue as usual during the state-wide air raid test this Thursday, the Civil Defense Advisory Committee disclosed yesterday. The public has been asked to participate...