Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Austria, transfixed by the ideal of a triumphant German culture. This decision led indirectly to his bizarre death in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. Visiting his son-in-law in the town of Mittersill, he was somehow shot during a botched black-market raid being carried out by American G.I.s...
...When the police raid a newly-opened massage parlor and arrest ten women on prostitution charges...
Cambridge police yesterday arrested ten women on charges of soliciting for prostitution following a raid on "Le Club," an East Cambridge massage parlor which opened about two weeks...
...American commandos raided an installation 20 miles from Hanoi-the Son Tay prison-thought to house 60 American prisoners of war. The raid was heroically executed but was based on an egregious failure of intelligence: the prison had been closed at least three months earlier...
...raid produced a rather bizarre footnote generated by my warped sense of humor. An officer briefing me on the raid apologized for its failure. I told him not to apologize, joking that no doubt they had brought back a baby water buffalo, and the North Vietnamese were going crazy trying to figure out why we had mounted a big operation for that purpose. The officer, presuming that the President's security adviser could not be totally mad, reported this to his superiors, who started a hunt for the animal. The troops in the field, convinced that Washington had lost...