Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...same time, Princeton began early its biggest social weekend of the year by staging a three-hour riot involving broken windows, fist fights, and arrests. The demonstration followed a practice air raid blackout yesterday...
This shows a heightening of the fear response, both during and beyond the presence of the fear stimulus. In human terms, this would mean that irradiated soldiers would show fear not only during an air raid, for example, but also after the danger had passed...
...turned out to be a ten-percenter. Said he: "Perhaps Wes Roberts had to show he could double a Democrat ... His conduct in this transaction was, at the very least, morally outrageous." Aging (65) Alf Landon, a member of the Hall group, charged that Roberts had "made a raid on the public treasury . . . which stinks to high heaven...
...broke and Koba became the appropriations member of the Caucasian Bolshevik Bureau, i.e., he directed "fighting squads" which robbed banks, public treasuries, steamships. His biggest haul: a quarter of a million rubles in a stickup in the main square of Tiflis. Among those arrested as a result of this raid was Litvinov, future Commissar for Foreign Affairs, who was trying to dispose of the loot in Paris. Koba, although on the police "wanted" list, managed to keep in the background. He was a terrorist, but a terrorist who operated through committees. This was caution; none ever questioned his personal courage...
Since the Palestine "armistice" of April 3, 1949, the almost ritualistic routine of daily raiding and killing has provided full-time work for peacemakers of the U.N.'s Mixed Armistice Commission. Refugee Arabs raid across the border to pluck a few oranges from groves that had been taken from them, or to liberate a few cattle or some lengths of irrigation pipe from the Israeli side. The Israelis raid back in force to shoot up the Arabs. Local commanders sometimes smooth over incidents; other times the MAC has to move in for an investigation, then fitful peace returns...