Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...till week's end did the Luftwaffe break the tension. Then, after a day of swirling dogfights over the Channel, the German bombers came back to London. It was the longest and heaviest raid Britain had had in four weeks. But to the straining British it was not long enough or heavy enough to account for the month's layoff...
...covered thousands of miles, so silently that no word of their activities leaked out until last week. Then, with the Italian Libyan Armies no longer in condition to strike a flanking blow at Egypt, Cairo uncovered the story of their campaign, added new details to the Free French raid on Murzuch (TIME...
...best the unhappy Italians could claim for their week's work was the first night raid on Piraeus, which Athens wrote off as negligible. Nevertheless, eying the week's round of Axis conferences (see p. 28), the Greeks well knew that Italy might bring weapons which Greek arms could not beat...
...King of Egypt is young, flabby, willful. At night, when he cannot sleep, he loves to set off the air-raid alarm, watch his courtiers scurry to the shelter in their night clothes. He eats pounds of chocolates daily. He drives big, sleek, red and green cars-15 Packards and ten Rolls-Royces-and steers them, according to his chauffeurs, better than anybody in Egypt. He is even surer of himself when running his country's affairs...
...With the Loudest Voice in the House of Commons") Brown, an uninspired Liberal wheel horse, was made Minister of Health last week, succeeding National Laborite Malcolm Mac-Donald, bespectacled son of the late Prime Minister "Ramsay Mac." This shift was tantamount to congratulating Son Mac-Donald for bettering air-raid shelter conditions, his biggest job as Minister of Health. Winston Churchill packed him off to Canada to serve in the important job of British High Commissioner...