Word: raiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gorst flung the ultimate Trotskyite insult at the Redgraves: "They are totally Stalinist." Vanessa, for her part, struggled to cast the Red House raid as a cause celebre. The police bust, she eagerly insisted during TV interviews, was "the biggest political attack on any political party since the offices of the Daily Worker were raided...
...Japan returned to prosperity, so did Hirohito. His principal palace, burned down during an American firebomb raid in 1945, was replaced by a new one in 1968 at the cost of $36 million. Maintenance of the imperial household these days costs the government $6.7 million a year-handsome remuneration for a man whose role is defined by the postwar constitution as a ceremonial "symbol of state...
...Torrential rains all day in the dark city. Late in the afternoon, police raid a Bronx apartment of Velez's girl friend and find a phone number. It does not check out, but police ask the New York Telephone Co. for addresses of phones with a single transposition of any of the digits. They check out two possibilities. No luck. At the third, on West 19th Street, Lieutenant John J. Yuknes, 45, who has been running the mechanics of the search, posts officers at the building's exits. Not knowing which of the 18 apartments contains the phone...
...last April 21. A young woman led the masked bandits who looted the bank of $15,000 and killed a housewife with a shotgun blast in the process. Authorities speculated at the time that Patty's band of S.L.A. fugitives might have had a hand in the bank raid...
...lover in the last fifty pages. For Boil, there is nothing so honest as sensuality: Leni's sensuality, even when she does not know Nazis kill Jews; the sensuality of anonymous lovers who in churches, cemeteries, or bomb-shelters embrace each other amid the desolation of an air-raid; and the sensuality of an Au. who has conceded from page 1 that he has too much concern to be detached...