Word: raids
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the Peking bullyboys -according to their own account -carried off a small. Commando-type raid of Nationalist-held Quemoy, a 70-sq.-mi. bastion (not part of the Pescadores) that lies off the port city of Amoy, only four or five miles from the mainland. Quemoy bristles with Nationalist troops, is said to be heavily fortified with concrete pillboxes, artillery and interlocking fields of machine-gun fire. Peking claimed that a party of 40 Red raiders attacked a sleeping garrison on Quemoy. killed ten, captured one, withdrew. The occurrence of the raid was confirmed from Taipei...
...event of an air-raid "alert," the President and his staff duck into an underground shelter right on the White House grounds...
Those who remain lapse only occasionally into the rambunctious sort of hoopla that plagues other state campuses. There was at least one panty raid two years ago, and now and then a crisis on the gridiron will turn the whole town upside down. But though S.U.I.'s field house is big enough for an entire indoor football field and though its football team is rapidly rising to the top of the Big Ten, the university's interests on the whole lie elsewhere. "Unless there is a spirit of learning here," said President Jessup, "unless there is a genuine...
...with a sprinkling of poetry. Close to one-fourth of the book is taken up with unsparing accounts of World War II. Expertly written-if by now rather familiar-are the deadpan horrors of Alan Moorehead's graphic Belsen and the explosive shock of a Sunday-morning air raid in London as described by William Sansom in Building Alive. Often, Horizon's writers add a reflective dimension to war reporting possible only to men who have known a country before it became the enemy. In Rhineland Journal, Poet Stephen Spender sensitively compares pre-Nazi to postwar Germany...
...California's top eligibles, Governor Goodwin J. ("Goody") Knight, 57, whose first wife, mother of his two grown daughters, died in 1952, announced that this week he will marry Mrs. Virginia Carlson, 35, whose husband, an Army Air Force bombardier, died in a 1944 raid on Rumania...