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Raids are slightly constipating. -- Elizabeth Bowen
There was a look of woe on his face that was almost comical. Raids, bullets, criminals...no problem. A missing duster? Crisis. -- Richelle Mead
Prosperity cannot be restored by raids upon the public Treasury. -- Herbert Hoover
My parents were born in the 1930s, and they experienced the air raids on Tokyo. -- Hideo Kojima
Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids. -- Alexander Graham Bell
Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam. -- Dan Jenkins
Barack Obama's military triumphs will come neither in long wars nor even short ones, but in a series of raids. -- Elliott Abrams
So the first thing that went on was to decide... trying to find a time when we could get reprisal raids out. -- James Stockdale
During World War II, the pilot losses were staggering. In some bombing raids, as many as 80% of the planes that left did not return. -- Simon Sinek
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
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
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
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
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
The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive. -- Elliott Abrams
It is true that raids and battles killed a tiny percentage of the numbers that die in modern warfare. But in tribal violence, the clashes are more frequent, the percentage of men in the population who fight is greater, and the rates of death per battle are higher. -- Steven Pinker
I am the one in charge of the 19 brothers ... I was responsible for entrusting the 19 brothers ... with the raids. -- Osama bin Laden
when someone you love dies, he becomes your enemy; he fights you tooth and nail from a hidden position; he successfully raids what small provisions you have gathered to keep yourself going. -- Rosalyn Drexler

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