Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rugless living rooms, and strange smells of mothballs, home-baked cookies and detergent mixed ungracefully with the fragrance of Indian Summer in the Yard. Outside Stoughton, under the quickly darkening sky, twenty-five of the new arrivals plotted with furtive relish their first attack on the 'Cliffie: a Panty Raid...
...more significant, perhaps symbolic sense, that still-born raid on Radcliffe reflected the premature end of a certain frivolous irresponsibility. The class of '67 soon learned that the business of being a student was serious stuff and that to be taken seriously (a major criteria for all action), students would have to allow commitment, and involvement...
...then he made the mistake of bowing to labor demands for a general wage increase, which could only contribute to the inflation he professed to oppose. He made other mistakes as well. Driven to distraction by the increase in border terrorism, he lunged out wildly in a massive retaliation raid aimed not at Syria, whose government trains and finances the Arab commando units responsible for the incidents, but at relatively peaceful Jordan, where King Hussein had been doing his best to keep the terrorists out of his kingdom...
...hidden commentary on war and pacifism." Inscribed within the work, together with tiny, exquisite maps of battle plans and bifurcated nuclear mushrooms, are passages, in German, from letters Mary wrote to her mother in 1943 and 1944. One telling example of modern history's ambiguity is the air-raid instructions one letter repeats from German posters: "Put all lights out. Light means your death [Licht dein Tod]" Yet, as Mary Bauermeister points out today, to an artist light means not death but life...
...keep the advantage of surprise, bidders like to pounce on Sundays (all it takes is a press release and an order for an ad in the next day's paper), when the management of the attacked company is unready to hit back. "The first I heard of this raid was at my golf club," spluttered President Dwight M. Cochran of Kern County Land Co. after Occidental Petroleum's bitterly contested two-step offer last month to buy 23% of his asset-laden oil and farming firm. With such tactics, a group of Detroit financiers led by Donald...