Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raid was an outright reprisal for the previous night's incident; the police claim that they were merely answering a distress call...
Could this attempt to portray Republicans as supersquares be a subtle maneuver to win sympathy? After all, who would not feel sorry for a candidate sleeping alone with a hat on, in a room reeking of paint cleaner and Raid, denied even the comfort of reading...
...West. Indeed, Sino-American relations, though cautious on cultural exchanges, have blossomed in the area of trade; the U.S. is now China's second-largest trading partner, after Japan. (By contrast, the Soviet Union inspires only fear in China -enough to prompt continued building of vast air-raid shelters in many of China's cities.) Although the Chairman's goals are, as always, difficult to understand, some China watchers believe that he is trying to strike a complex political balance between the radical and moderate forces. The consensus is that Mao's own strategy...
...Tyre turns inland at Naqura, the scenery suddenly changes from lush and crowded to barren and empty. As it wound through Dhayra, Awad Dib, a 35-year-old tobacco farmer and father of nine, could be seen doggedly rebuilding his house. One April night last spring, after the fedayeen raid on Qiryat Shemona that killed 18 Israelis (TIME, April 22), an armored column rolled into the village. "About 35 men came to my farm," he told me. "They said I helped the fedayeen. They took all the furniture in my house and piled it in one room. Then they took...
...Christian. For another, every structure in the village is made of stone, which can save lives. Almost every house has doors off hinges, cracked walls or damaged roofs; some have been totally destroyed. Two months ago, a villager named Elias Gibran was caught in the fields during an air raid and killed. He was Rashaya Fukhar's third fatality in such attacks; 25 others have been wounded. A widow and seven children survive...