Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hydrogen bomb would blast many, square miles whose destruction would contribute in no way to the effectiveness of the bomb. Atomic bombs, on the other hand, could presumably be dropped so as to avoid overbombing uninhabited areas. Furthermore, it was found in the last war that a saturation raid which greatly hampered fire-fighting forces caused damage far beyond the areas of immediate blast effects. Considering all these factors, it seems likely that there is no metropolitan area which could not be thoroughly destroyed with 25 atomic bombs at most, and perhaps as few as ten. It also appears that...
...Yalies neglected to define either illegal activities or the college crowd. They also made no mention of a recent raid on Yale dormitories which netted 30 illegal slot machines...
...Stars & Stripes. But the sump pumps began to throb. On the floor of the House, Mississippi's old Dixie Demagogue John Rankin (D.), leader of many another Treasury raid in the name of the nation's veterans, led this raid with customary eagerness and cunning. He had wangled the bill out of committee. "Passage will do much to relieve a real need," he declaimed. Members fell over one another rushing to the well to add their voices. Said Massachusetts' motherly Republican Edith Nourse Rogers: to turn the bill down would be "a very cruel thing." Pennsylvania...
Chief King praised the work of Captain Stokes' Crime Prevention Bureau in handling this case, and denied statements attributed to him in the Boston press that a decoy had been used in the raid...
Yesterday's raid is "only the beginning," according to Crime Prevention director Thomas J. Stokes of the Cambridge police. Although Harvard Square is one of the cleanest trading centers in Cambridge, Captain Stokes announced yesterday that his squad is out to mop up those bookies who still make a living here from students and other local betters...