Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...memento Britanniae, he took along an air-raid siren, which he intends to install at his Cape Cod home; he thought it would be a good way to call the swarming Kennedy children ashore from their boats...
...There is no need to review Trotsky's archives in order to recognize the "group" which raided his house in May 1940 or was behind the assassination in August. The painter Sisquier, well - known Stalinist, (and Mike "foot-in-the mouth" Gold himself confirmed the fact in a late issue of the Daily Worker) has readily acknowledged his leadership of the May raid...
More important to Italy than the actual destruction accomplished was the propaganda value of the raid. Loudly Rome boasted that the bombers had set a new distance record, covering 2,800 miles on the outgoing trip from bases in Libya or Italy. It was a lot more probable that they had taken off from Eritrea, or that the Italian military mission had won the use of an air base from the French in Syria. But Italy stuck to its story, declared the planes had been refueled from submarine tankers. The warning to the U. S. and the Near East...
...neutral but palpitant Sweden, engineers of Ericsson Telephone Co. devised an air-raid alarm which works like a doorbell. The bell can be plugged into an ordinary current outlet in the house. If raiders come, the power plant slightly steps up the voltage in the line, rings the alarm bell in all houses which have...
...Hageman's salty musical score. Best shot: the Glencairn's crew plastered prone on the ship's deck, with only the roar of Stukas, the splash of bombs on the water, the splatter of machine-gun bullets on the white canvas to indicate a Nazi bombing raid...