Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Exile Caper. On TV from Pico Turquino next day, Castro predictably blamed the waterfront raid on "the CIA, which has perpetrated all types of misdeeds and crimes against this country." In reply, three exile groups in Miami quickly admitted that they had pulled off the caper "to show that Castro is vulnerable." The boats, according to exiles, had not come from Florida but from a "secret base" outside U.S. jurisdiction. There seemed little doubt on that score. For over a year, the U.S. has tried to restrain anti-Castroites from such exciting but basically pointless adventures.†The surveillance...
Twelve Harvard students pulled a panty raid on burlesque queen Hope Diamond last night, but the panties and bras came on hour late, Miss Diamond never came at all, and no one seemed too happy about the whole affair...
...actual "raid" consisted of one mad charge at three young ladies clad in leotards. The floor around the bench was strewn with undergarments, and the instructions were "Grab what's on the floor but leave the girls alone...
...York evoked memories of wartime London, when Englishmen of all classes closed ranks before the common foe, the shared indignity. In the blackout, as in the blitz, no man was an island. A blanket on the ground, as Henry Moore recorded in his drawings of Londoners huddled in air-raid shelters, can be a great leveler. To complete the parallel, blacked-out U.S. cities were illumed by what Englishmen still remember as "a bomber's moon...
...Yorkers, claiming that they had seen a satellite pass over at the moment the lights failed, argued that the Russians had done it again. Many clung stubbornly to the belief that it was all a Government-ordered test to see if Americans could stand up to an air raid...