Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quick, harmonious meeting, the conference drafted a scheme (still to be ratified by both governments) setting up a permanent civil defense planning group for the two countries. Air-raid signals will be the same in Canada and the U.S. Ambulances, fire engines, civil defense workers and doctors will travel freely from one country to another to render assistance after an enemy attack. Explained U.S. Civil Defense Boss Wadsworth: "We're going to scratch each other's backs in every way we know...
Committed Battalions. During Stanton's presidency, CBS first stole a march on RCA Victor by launching the 33⅓ r.p.m. long-playing record. At the end of 1948, CBS launched a full-scale talent raid on NBC, and captured such topflight entertainers as Jack Benny, Amos 'n' Andy, George Burns & Gracie Allen, Edgar Bergen, Red Skelton. Last October, CBS won what seemed at the time to be its biggest victory of all: a 5-to-2 decision by the Federal Communications Commission in favor of CBS's color TV over the rival systems...
Confederate Freebooter William Clarke Quantrill will raid again-and again & again-in Kansas Raiders (Universal-International), The Great Missouri Raid (Nat Holt), Quantrill's Raiders (Paramount). Confederate veterans are .due to turn up in the postbellum Wild West as, among other things, bandits (RKO's Best of the Bad Men) and railroad builders (Columbia's Santa Fe). In Nat Holt's Warpath, the formula gets a bold switch: a Civil War veteran (Edmond O'Brien) goes west, all right, but he's a Yankee...
Albert Haertlein '16, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering, will serve on a six-man committee to design air raid shelters and plan protection against bombing in Massachusetts. The state Civil Defense organization selected him yesterday...
...year 1917, at the crossing of two trenches in France, and wonders which way to go. At that point Hero Charles Randall and Author C. S. Forester make their big mistake: the hero turns left. Had he turned right, Randall would have been neatly dispatched in a German raid on a British strongpoint. Author Forester, whose Captain Horatio Hornblower is one of the best historical romances in the language, would thus have been spared the shame of scattering Hornblower's wake with a fictional mess for the gulls; and poor Randall would have been spared a life that...