Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...encouraging to see people preparing sensibly for the Great Struggle. Lowell House has a right to be proud of the new air raid shelter being constructed in the main quadrangle. We can't begin getting ready for the Russians too soon...
...hullabaloo of argument, President Truman tried to make up his mind last week whether he should sign or veto the Kerr gas bill (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The bill's opponents loudly damned it as the biggest raid by "special interests" since Teapot Dome. Just as warmly, the bill's backers called it indispensable for the further growth of the natural gas industry...
Scat Mother Goose. Almost every year Ella manages to get back to the Apollo. Last week, Ella, now a strapping 31, gave the fans a hearty sampling of sweet ballads with a Fitzgerald edge, a few bopped-up old favorites, her latest raid on Mother Goose (a scat version of Old Mother Hubbard), and a couple of friendly imitations of her old pals Louis Armstrong and Rose ("Chichi") Murphy. As always, her gently rasping voice, halfway between jungle wail and jukebox jangle, brought the house down...
...kicked out of the Dutch army in 1948, began to recruit his own private army to fight against the new Indonesian Republic. His 10,000 troops, mostly Moslem extremists and deserters from the Dutch army, call themselves "The Heavenly Host." Recently, Westerling sent 600 of his men on a raid of West Java's Bandung (TIME, Feb. 6); he boasted that he would conquer all of Indonesia. But last week, Westerling's military future looked...
...nephews told state investigators a bizarre and helpful story. One of the nephews, at Heath's urging, had replaced a broken glass window in a maroon Chevrolet the night of the Hurst murder. Heath had confessed to his sons that he took part in the raid, warned them to keep it quiet for their own protection. The sons said that the Rev. Alvin C. Horn, a tall, slouched Kleagle in the Association of Georgia Klans, had called on them, told them, "Boys, your daddy would say, 'Let everything be as it is.' Don't tell anyone...