Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both sides decided to state their positions clearly. Duffy explained his library raid: "The action was taken so we will have something for the grand jury to use in making comparison. I'm no expert on obscene literature and I don't believe the grand jury is either...
...half masonry, seem to be waiting rigid in the dark for an inevitable bomb. Hofer knows what bombs can do. Forbidden by the Nazis to exhibit his work, he kept on painting in Berlin when war came, saw his studio and some 300 pictures destroyed in an air raid. After the war, he set about painting the same pictures over again. Human beings, mostly sorrowful, remain the basic element in his art, but today Hofer flattens and distorts them more rigorously than ever...
...time of the great raid on Austria, Suleiman had begun to suspect that the Turk had ridden as far as he could on the road of conquest, and that it was time to squat on the carpet of diplomacy and consolidate the great adventure into a great state. Accordingly, the Sultan struck alliances with France and Venice, reorganized the legal code, expanded the educational system, opened his borders to European immigration, and announced the pax Turcica...
During the Eisenhower visit in January the police made a spectacular haul in Milan's O.M. (Officine Mecchaniche) automotive plant. Inside an old, sealed air-raid shelter were a 45-mm. mortar, five antiaircraft guns, 22 machine guns, twelve barrels of tear gas, hundreds of grenades, many small arms, 82 cases of ammunition. A smart police officer narrowly averted a tragedy by cautioning his men not to switch on a light in the shelter; it turned out to be a booby trap set up to detonate...
...Thieves raided Jubilee election posters for the second time in a week Friday night. This raid, though, was not a complete house-cleaning like the first...