Word: raided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business counts its dollars, the termites of Fascism and Communism eat into the crumbling remains of European freedom. The price we may have to pay for our sloth and half-hearted ness will make the billions spent in the last war look like the proceeds of a piggy-bank raid...
...raid broke up an impromptu rehearsal of a Crusader version of "Carry me back to Old Virginuy," composed for today's Stadium clash. After the second "bombing run" the aircraft disappeared into the sun leaving 2000 papers to the attention of the Crusader fans and refuse collectors...
...Communist guerrillas on their deepest raid into Nationalist territory this year, sweeping 300 miles in three weeks. U.S. headlines said that China's capital itself was threatened last week. Nationalist river craft steamed up the Yangtze to see if Liu Po-cheng would attempt a crossing; night guards carefully checked all vehicles entering Nanking. But the city itself was undisturbed, and the city gates were still open...
...after Bevin's casual reference to Lend-Lease, Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton made a not-so-casual plea for crisis aid from the International Bank (whose staff calls its present quarters, one of London's deepest air-raid shelters, "the second Fort Knox"). Bank President John J. McCloy pointed out that the Bank was designed to make only commercially sound loans, attractive to private investors, and not to grant emergency aid not likely to be repaid...
...time was running out. The Germans' only heavy water plant, in Norway, was destroyed by Commandos and bombing when only two tons of the vital water had been produced. Air raids slowed Germany's industry, disrupted her communications. The pile-builders never got all the uranium they needed. They were forced to work in cellars and air-raid shelters. In 1945, they took refuge in a dugout hewn in the rock near the village of Haigerloch, about 32 miles from Stuttgart...