#raids

On the eighteenth of December 1972, when we thought we were getting another of the hundreds of little tactical air raids, we heard the bombs going in out there in the railroad yards and this went on for about thirty minutes. ↗

— James Stockdale

#air #another #bombs #december #eighteenth

Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold? ↗

— Shirley Booth

#air #always #any #cold #crisis

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. ↗

— Alexander Graham Bell

#against #any #army #little #navy

Genetic studies in Iceland have found that many of the women who were the founding stock of Iceland came from England and what is now France. Some were probably captured and carried off in Viking raids only 40 generations ago. ↗

— Keith Henson

#came #captured #carried #england #found

So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out. ↗

— James Stockdale

#decide #find #first #first thing #get

Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. ↗

— Herbert Hoover

#prosperity #public #raids #restored #treasury

I have just come from a couple of raids, where we had a very lively time, and some of them had to pull their guns. I found it necessary to punch a few sports myself. ↗

— Richard H. Davis

#couple #few #found #guns #had

There were air raids at night. The factory was dark and dirty. And I remember thinking - well - I must find somebody or something because like this I cannot go on. ↗

— Ruth Pitter

#because #cannot #dark #dirty #factory