Word: raided
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bombing of London irritates me less than TIME'S article on the Battle of Britain (Sept. 23). You say: ". . . Busses stopped . . . cabbies ducked." This is sheer nonsense for I have ridden many times in both busses and taxis during a raid...
...beginning of the Luftwaffe the decision on stopping busses in a raid was left to the judgment of the individual drivers. Few stopped. Today none stop until a street "spotter" gives the signal...
Taxis are fewer than before the war, due both to petrol rationing and raids, but I've always been able to get one. On Oct. 4, I taxied from Blackfriars to Harley Street during a raid. Suddenly the guns went into action overhead. My driver turned to me and said: "Madam, the raiders are overhead, would you care to take cover?" "Not unless you want to," I replied. He withered me with a look and drove on. This is the rule, not the exception...
...first time in Britain, all heavy industry and many offices and stores prepared to work full time on Boxing Day (Dec. 26). Last year many British workers got a two-or three-week Christmas holiday amid the now-forgotten "phony war." Meanwhile, life in the big London air-raid shelters, where over 1,000,000 people regularly spend the night, had become so standardized that many shelter Christmas parties were elaborate communal affairs with mass harmony singing, skits and dancing. Christmas trees sold regularly at 40? per foot and every big shelter had one, that under Piccadilly Circus sprouting...
...liberation, castration and feasting was at hand. The British had no major force to spare for a strong thrust at the 100,000 Italians cut off from home in Ethiopia, but at Gallabat, Kassala and down in Italian Somaliland they delivered jabs and jolts. In a swift raid they seized El Wak, across Kenya's east border, took 120 prisoners, seized or burned important Italian supplies...