Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came close to Edward Roscoe Murrow. Three times, bombs destroyed his London CBS offices. The day after he moved into office No. 4, another raid gutted the synagogue across the street. He flew 20 sorties with U.S. and British pilots, sailed the Channel on a minesweeper, lay in a London gutter to broadcast the sound of an air raid. This week, after nine years in England, Ed Murrow was off to the U.S. for good. But before he left, he spoke an eloquent "Farewell and Hail" over...
...that "democracy would never succeed in America." The principal charge: that Miss Quinn had written on the blackboard six sentences out of a Jew-baiting leaflet, The First Americans. These sentences overgenerously credited Irish-Americans with killing the first Jap, sinking the first battleship, carrying out the first FT raid, bagging the first Jap plane, capturing the first German spy, winning the first presidential citation. She left out the anti-Semitic punch line, but her critics said the inference was obvious. She was suspended on charges of intolerance and un-Americanism...
Colonel Effingham's Raid (20th Century-Fox), from the novel by Berry Fleming, tells the story of W. Seaborn Effingham (Charles Coburn), a garrulous, fabulous old Southern colonel who descends on a small city in Georgia and, before he has finished, practically turns the place upside down. The picture depends mostly upon the colonel's warlike antics and vocabulary, and upon some mild byplay involving William Eythe and Joan Bennett as newspaper reporters. The local color possibilities were enormous, but the producer and director of this picture evidently didn't think them worth the trouble. Most...
...begins in a bright, clear, summer morning. About 7 o'clock, there is an air-raid alarm; about 8, the all-clear sounds. I am sitting in my room at the Novitiate of the Society of Jesus, approximately five kilometers from the center of the city. From my window, I have a wonderful view down the valley to the edge of the city...
...brought up with Gary and Anne-Charlotte to act as an elevating influence. He succeeds chiefly in being sardonic and truculent. Written on the Wind reports the lifelong intellectual homosexuality between Reese and Gary. It also reports one or two murders, a suicide or two, a raid on a dingy brothel (in which Anne-Charlotte is caught), and an unflagging succession of orgiastic parties at which the tobacco scions and their bibulous set try to drown their boredom. Out of these Freudian fandangos, Author Wilder has written a highly readable novel whose episodes are frequently breathless, whose dialogue is crisp...