Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Malta's people-the first to be decorated en masse by a British king (TIME, April 27)-Old Dob Dob had shown two qualities that made him a blood brother: imperturbability in the face of danger, and simple piety. During the hottest raids on Malta, air-raid wardens would find Sir William beside them, unruffled, pitching in to help move wounded out of bomb-wrecked houses. Nightly he held Bible classes for officers and men, sprinkled his War Office reports with Scriptural quotations...
...Student Council, Defense Service Committee, and other undergraduate organizations have lined up volunteer air raid wardens, firemen, spotters, auxiliary police, the marching battalion and a mechanized battery of the ROTC, and a few members at least, perhaps all, of the Band...
...Elden Sawhill '43, president of Phillips Brooks House, said last night that "it is hoped that all students who are doing war work, such as air raid wardens, spotters and blood donors, and these who are interested in doing something for the war effort, will 'join the parade...
...passport to China. Jacoby spent a week wire-pulling, announced one day to his mother: "That girl's damn smart." She got the passport and a publicity job in Chungking. Jacoby went on his way to Chungking by Clipper, was hired by TIME. Once after a bad air raid he wrote to discourage her coming, saying Chungking was no place for a woman. At the bottom of the letter he penciled: "P.S. Hurry...
Describing dimout conditions in Cambridge as 99 percent complete, Major Ralph W. Robart, chief local air raid warden, said yesterday that "if this dimout effort is ineffective, the Army will be forced to order a full blackout for the duration...