Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifteen-year-old John Anderton of Nottingham, remembering a German bombers' raid on Liverpool the night before the Samaria sailed, told reporters how it felt to come within sight of the skylit glare of New York City. Said he: "Our first thought was to shout, 'Turn out them lights...
...evening Lin Yutang had learned that from the point of view of destruction this was probably the worst raid Chungking had ever suffered. A huge swath of fire raged through the city's most crowded sector. Next morning Author Lin took a walk. He saw 10,000 homes burned or blasted; he saw people sleeping in the streets; and when he also saw a potter setting out his wares for sale he was amazed at the display, not of porcelain but of nerves. That afternoon the bombers returned, gutted the business district, including many foreign offices. The big Changanszu...
First commentator heard on the CBS roundup from England was Ed Murrow. Said he: "This is Trafalgar Square. The noise you hear at the moment is the sound of the air-raid siren." Calmly Murrow described the searchlights stabbing the London sky, the muted traffic, the shelter beneath St. Martin's in the Fields. He was still talking when the program moved on to the kitchen of the Savoy Hotel, where Bob Bowman described a menu that included eight hors d'oeuvres, eight different kinds of meat and game. With him was famed Chef François Latry...
Alarmed at the mounting evacuation figures, the Air Raid Precautions Office investigated, put an end to one popular aspect of war by discontinuing free evacuation tickets...
During last week's air raids, queues before the theatres were as long as those before the entrances to London's air-raid shelters. Memorable moment in the his tory of drab suburban Finsbury Park Empire Theatre came in the course of Springtime for Henry. While sirens wailed, Actor Tom Walls quoted Kipling's line: "If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you." Only five people left the theatre, and galleryites shouted: "We're British and we're staying here...