Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opposition leaders feel that it is worth climbing an extra 36 steps to avoid congestion. As a further argument, they point out that two catalogues stand a better chance of surviving an air raid than a single file...
...Great Missouri Raid (Paramount) is a pseudohistorical western that whitewashes the Jesse James gang in bright Technicolor. An earlier version of the desperado's career, 1939's moneymaking Jesse James, depicted the James boys as victims of a land-grabbing railroad which forced them into a life of crime. In the new vogue for brewing westerns out of the backwash of the Civil War, they become Southern martyrs hounded by a vindictive Yankee major...
...October 6, President Conant appointed a committee to work with Cambridge authorities on integrating the University's and the city's defense plans, especially against a possible air attack. A course on air-raid precautions was instituted, open to all connected with the University...
...mock air raid came off perfectly the next day and P.B.H. expanded its civilian defense facilities greatly, urging all students to volunteer for part-time work...
...that she had simply been a governess for his children and that she had been appropriately dressed when she leaped through the window. Mrs. Matthews had been engaged in a messy and sensational divorce fight with her own husband at the time of the tragedy, had led a "bedroom raid" of his apartment and had been accused of numerous infidelities in return...