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  • When war broke out, my father joined the army but my mother continued to play at the Intimate for much of the war, sometimes sleeping underneath the stage during air-raids, with the rest of the cast.

    Family life 2011

  • From air-raids and car bombs and other such trouble.

    'A Visit by St. Obama' 2009

  • Houthi fighters say scores of civilians, including many children, have been killed in US air-raids in the southeast of the war-stricken Arab country.

    How Does Obama Look His Two Girls in the Eye While Killing Children in Many Lands? 2009

  • It is repeatedly stated that chemical and biological weapons were broadly used during the war, particularly in mass air-raids against cities.

    BRAVE NEW WORLD - 2009 2009

  • It is repeatedly stated that chemical and biological weapons were broadly used during the war, particularly in mass air-raids against cities.

    Printing: BRAVE NEW WORLD - 2009 2009

  • Similarly, Mr. Obama's "air-raiding" remark followed president Bush's similar statements about disastrous air-raids in Afghanistan, and came actually in an appeal for more resources for the Afghan war.

    McCain - Palin: Unethical conduct and lies 2008

  • The focus of the humanitarian concern has now shifted to the territory of Georgia proper, with reports of dozens of civilian casualties from Russian air-raids and a mass flight from the town of Gori, to the south of South Ossetia.

    South Ossetia: An Avoidable Catastrophe IWPR 2008

  • American pilots do not conduct air-raids on villages, killing civilians, nor are our troops cold-blooded murderers or terrorists.

    From the Desk of Bud Day 2008

  • He remembered better the rackety, uneasy circumstances of the time: the periodical panics about air-raids and the sheltering in Tube stations, the piles of rubble everywhere, the unintelligible proclamations posted at street corners, the gangs of youths in shirts all the same colour, the enormous queues outside the bakeries, the intermittent machine-gun fire in the distance — above all, the fact that there was never enough to eat.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

  • He remembered better the rackety, uneasy circumstances of the time: the periodical panics about air-raids and the sheltering in Tube stations, the piles of rubble everywhere, the unintelligible proclamations posted at street corners, the gangs of youths in shirts all the same colour, the enormous queues outside the bakeries, the intermittent machine-gun fire in the distance — above all, the fact that there was never enough to eat.

    Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

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