Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...school? "It is a long ride to the next town, where there is a high school," Santel explains, "and a lot of them just don't go." Some of them get into trouble. Even in this sleepy hamlet, far from sinful San Juan, police recently staged a drug raid, arresting eight suspects and confiscating some narcotics. "But it is not bad here," Santel says. "It is a better time than before because of the food stamps. People can eat a lot of meat now and they own their little houses...
Ultra gave advance warning of the German air raid on Coventry in November 1940. Extraordinary defensive effort could have saved the city, says Brown; evacuation would have rescued its citizens. But Churchill rejected both courses, feeling that they would tip the Germans to Ultra. The raid killed 554 people. Afterward, the Prime Minister was photographed stumping pluckily through the ruins of the great cathedral...
Volume IX also documents Pius XII's protests, though private, against German atrocities. After some 1,300 Jews were arrested by SS troops in a raid on Rome's ghetto in October 1943, for example, Hitler's ambassador was summoned to the Vatican. There he was told that the raid "was painful for the Holy Father in that so many persons were made to suffer simply because they belonged to another race." According to Volume IX, the decision to stop short of denunciation was made partly from concern over jeopardizing the Holy See's diplomatic efforts...
...general manager A1 Ward is maintaining a tight lid on any news concerning candidates for the coaching job. The Jets' news blanket was earlier reported to stem from the fact that they had their eye on a member of the Dallas Cowboys' coaching staff and did not want to raid the Cowboys' ranks on the eve of the Super Bowl...
...phrase. It did not, he insists, refer to less Government attention to civil rights, but to a need for more care, at a time of high racial tension, to avoid situations "in which extremists of either race are given opportunities for martyrdom" ?such as the 1969 Chicago police raid on the Black Panthers...