Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last Saturday, Aug. 9, the air-raid sirens wailed again in Nagasaki. In memory of the atom-bomb dead, Nagasaki citizens bowed their heads, closed their eyes, prayed. Temple bells rang, civic leaders spoke. That night thousands of small lanterns, each with a candle burning in it, floated down the river which runs through the center of Nagasaki. In Buddhist faith, each candle consoled a soul lost in the atom blast...
When the Germans invade the island in 1940, Major David Niven is assigned to lead a commando raid on Armorel to rescue Venus. Meanwhile the enemy, headed by Commandant George Coulouris, is preparing to ship Venus to Germany. There ensues a tour de force of arms, with a British submarine braving minefields and Luftwaffe to reach Armorel, an artist hastingly camouflaging another cow to look like Venus in order to confound the Germans, and a battle in which a British destroyer sinks a German E-boat with depth charges...
...that one top Briton had a complaint: the U.S. should have passed the word to a soldier it implicitly trusts, Field Marshal Alexander, who was touring the battlefront and visiting his old friend Mark Clark just before the bomb bays were loaded. But Alexander himself, though surprised by the raid, said he approved of it. That set off Bevanite demands for Alexander's head...
...shorted about 10 million volts this afternoon," said one of the raiders. Politically, the raid represented a relaxation of one of the restrictions which U.S. policy has laid on itself in fighting its limited war in Korea. Through the first two years of war, Suiho, fourth largest power installation in the world, has been sacrosanct territory: Washington feared early in the war that an attack on it might bring Communist China into the battle; feared later that the power plant was too sensitively interlocked with Russia itself...
...East Air Force headquarters in Tokyo, officers said that the go-ahead for the raid came from "higher up." In Washington the Pentagon was quick to point out that the U.N. has still not struck beyond the Yalu, but is getting weary of the futility of its own self-imposed restraint. "We now realize," said a Pentagon officer, "that the best chance of breaking the deadlock at Panmunjom is to hit the enemy with the force at our command...