Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...justified." That line is no help when they come to the museum's most important pictures, such as the great Guernica mural that shows Picasso in a wilder and more difficult mood than his recent one. Faced with that deliberately and violently ugly protest against a German bombing raid (in the Spanish Civil War), visitors fairly bristle with questions...
...Zanesville, Ohio, schoolboys took over the city government for a day, promptly broke up a poker game, raided a numbers bank and were fixing to raid a brothel when embarrassed officials stopped them...
Once he led a crowd of Socialist partisans in a raid against Brussels' conservative Nation Belge and with his own walking stick smashed one of the paper's windows. The Nation Bege protected the window with an iron screen (which is still in place and known as the "Spaak grille"). But Belgians found it a little hard to take seriously a young radical who carried a walking stick. They called him "the Bolshevik in the dinner jacket...
...dozen pages which describe the climactic mission into Germany (based largely on an account of the Regensburg raid which Lay wrote for the Satevepost) must be close to the best writing about air combat to come out of World...
Marzani, a former OSS and State Department agent who chose the targets for Doolittle's Tokyo raid, has been found guilty of making false statements on government applications...