Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newest and noisiest college craze-the pantie raid-reached the epidemic stage. Night after night from coast to coast last week college boys leaped and howled like Comanches under the windows of squealing coeds; by week's end, despite arrests, expulsions, editorial blasts, and the best efforts of police riot squads-a few of whom even used tear gas-pantie raiders had made night hideous at 52 different colleges and universities...
Feeble attempts all over the nation to imitate the original College lingerie raid on Radcliffe have met with little success, interested observers reported yesterday. The first successful bra-and-panty theft took place at the 'Cliffe more than a year ago, when eager Yardlings poured out of a dimly lit Union to storm Briggs and Cabot Halls for personal souvenirs...
...this year, in 5-lb. packages priced at $6.95. One box will condition 80 sq. ft. of new lawn to a depth of 3 in., keep the soil porous and crumbly for as long as three years. Another reason for Monsanto's hurry: competitors were beginning to raid its market...
...Attack. When too many unnamed children accumulate in a village, the conscience-stricken grownups must do something about it, to wit, launch a headhunting raid. With solemn care and deliberation, the warriors and elders work out a plan of campaign. Scouts are sent into the interior to select a victim-village. They explore its approaches, creep close to its huts, study the habits of its people. They try to eavesdrop on conversations to learn their victims' names...
...flashback, the picture tells of Williams' 1921 conviction for the killing of a Prohibition officer during a raid on a North Carolina moonshine still, his experiences in solitary and on a back-breaking chain gang, his development of a lightweight, short-stroke carbine, using only automobile and tractor axles, a fence post, hacksaw and handfile in a prison blacksmith shop.*The happy ending: his pardon...