Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just before the English Channel was closed, he fled to England, where he dug air raid shelters in Wimbledon, a suburb of London, for almost three weeks. He later reached the United States on a secret crossing of a large British ship...
...machines; then he was back looking for business. We were glad to be able to give him some small jobs, and off he went quite happy, although the profit from our orders would not keep his family for one week. Two weeks later, in the great City fire raid, his building disappeared and with it his machines, stock and records-and our jobs as well...
Ahmed Salem himself stood right up to the State, shouted in court that the Egyptian Government habitually indulges in bribery, forgery and perjury, so why should not Government contractors? He ridiculed the King's Prosecutor for demanding the death penalty, ingeniously argued: "The air-raid wardens and police will take cover during air raids and their steel helmets will not be needed anyway. So how can I be accused of treason or sabotage? By using iron, I was actually saving steel for other armaments. The Egyptian State really ought to commend my patriotic...
Afterwards, intent Dr. Niebuhr found that Edinburgh had had its first air-raid alarm, that four Nazi planes had been potted overhead in the Firth of Forth Bridge raid while he spoke on man's destiny...
...constituents, "I had a great friend called Colonel Lindbergh." (The Colonel used to live, in fact, on Nicolson's Kentish estate.) "Before the war, Lindbergh's opinion of the British people was, 'You're fine but you are getting soft.' Now, after every bad raid, I have the great pleasure of sending him a post card saying, 'Do you still think we are soft?' Lindbergh does not answer these cards but I like sending them...