Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jaunting in Ireland, following the British in North Africa and Ethiopia, or covering a sea battle in the Mediterranean. He decided it was time to come home when his leg was crushed after a mob of excited Egyptians in Cairo pushed him from a train during an air raid...
...usually makes use of all kinds of bleak understatements in his reports to his home office. One of them from London read: "Hotel just blown out from under me. Filing tomorrow. Regards." For maladroit London censors, Casey was a baffling problem. Effective was his ironic report of an air raid in which he reduced censorship to complete inanity by refusing to mention even the name of the country bombed...
John Strachey (The Coming Struggle for Power, etc.) stopped his fellow-traveling with the war and became an air-raid warden. Digging for Mrs. Miller is a classic account of what a warden does and sees...
Miller away, and the sounds of the new raid were her only requiem." And that last line is nearest thing to a literary false note in one of the most vivid and sensitive accounts of the great London raids, from the viewpoint of people on the ground, that has come out of England since the Battle of Britain began...
...dapper doctor was found crouching behind a furnace, the women were led back to bed. With his secretary, maid and receptionist, the doctor was carted off to jail. So ended a raid on one of Manhattan's biggest abortion mills...