Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students will be asked to volunteer as air raid wardens in the near future, Cambridge's Civilian Defense Chief Walter L. Cronin said yesterday. After discussing his plans with vice-president Reynolds, Cronin said that they both agreed that the University's civil defense set-up will be identical with the city's. Cronin will appoint a faculty member as deputy civilian defense chief in charge of the University area...
...Force had decided to drop the preliminary "blue" air raid warning signal, use only the "red" signal (which means duck, the attack is imminent). Reason: the speed of modern bombers. Once bombers were sighted there would be no time for preliminaries, barely time to duck...
...struck south in a six-pronged drive, with a heavy force of armor aimed at Seoul. U.S. intelligence had reported that North Korean troops were massed on the border, but the enemy had achieved surprise by a prior series of false alarms in the form of border raids, so that no one paid enough attention this time. This time it was not a raid...
...there is an air raid warning...
...atomic attack: no major bombardment against land targets-especially a multiplicity of targets-has ever been completely stopped. However, the effectiveness of an enemy atomic attack can be somewhat reduced. Yet on such matters as radar warning screens and civilian defense and fighter defenses to cope with an atomic raid, the U.S. and Canada have done almost nothing...