Sentences with phrase «air raids»

I sat through enough air raids nearly seventy years ago, and survived without having my head blown off — whether anything was left in it is another argument.

In a series of cartoonish panorama paintings from the 1980s and 1990s, Okamoto reimagines the brutal scenery of the atomic bomb and the devastating air raids over Tokyo.

The most genuinely avant - garde invention was Marinetti's Parole Libere (Words in Freedom), onomatopoeic renderings of the sound of air raids in swirling letters: «Bum bum bum, Zang Tumb Tumb.»

In Allora & Calzadilla's video Raptor's Rapture (2012), installed in the Weinberg Bunker (which housed up to 10,000 civilians during war - time air raids), a musician, specializing in prehistoric instruments, tries to serenade a griffon vulture with a 35,000 - year - old flute made from the wing bone of that same species.

Brandt followed crowds during the nightly air raids and produced eerily beautiful images of the makeshift bomb shelters and the people who fled to them.

As a child, he and his family hid in the basement during air raids where he could hear and feel the explosions and bombings but had to resort to his imagination to visualize them.

He or she will launch blitzkriegs by pinning down ground forces with his or her own before sending in bombers for the coup de grâce; command infantry to guard extensive supply lines; and withdraw vulnerable units underground during air raids.

In the succeeding months, which brought the collapse of France, the threat of invasion across the Channel, and the heavy air raids on London and other cities, the Daily Worker seemed to be implementing this policy by encouraging unrest in the forces and among the civilian population, and by advocating stoppages and strikes in industry.

In addition, he is the author of Dresden: Tuesday, February 13, 1945 (nonfiction, 2004), the first serious reappraisal of one of the most infamous air raids of the Second World War.

Between 1940 and 1945, the city was the target of 363 air raids, with an estimated 20,000 civilians killed during the period.

The shortage of food, the fear of the Gastapo, and the air raids made their life miserable.

Twelve years after Peter (Levi Miller) was left as an infant on the doorstep of a home for boys, England becomes engulfed in WWII and London endures persistent German air raids.

Hideo Kojima explained his parents were born in 1930s, and they experienced air raids on Tokyo.

Our point of entrance is a young Brit named Tommy (Fionn Whitehead), who squeaks out to safety amidst air raids.

Jennifer Merin: Their Finest is a delightful British World War II dramady about a young woman who is hired to write patriotic screenplays that will boost the spirits of Brits as they stiff upper lip - it in the midst of air raids and shortages.

Film Review by Kam Williams Reverential Retrospective Revisits Life and Career of Charismatic Pop Artist David Hockney was born in Bradford, England in 1937 which means that his formative years were substantially shaped by World War II, from the air raids to the food rationing.

It looks like a war movie about life in England during the London Blitz, when air raids by German planes were a daily fact of life.

One by one the children begin acting strangely and Eve, with the help of local military commander Harry, discovers that the group has awoken a dark force even more terrifying and evil than the city's air raids.

Battlefield sequences look a bit generically set, likewise routine sequences of Britain's denizens flowing underground during air raids.

A new study based on historical data examines Allied air raids, including one on May 11, 1944, in which 1,980 aircraft took flight into Germany.

Palestinians fired around 900 rockets into Israel yesterday, while Israeli air raids this morning left three children dead, the AFP news agency reported.

Israeli Cabinet sources had discussed «improving» national security and the limited scale of the air raids taking place suggested Jerusalem is not prepared to press ahead with a full invasion.

Article 316 bis fourth: Theft crimes that take place during air raids shall be punished for by imprisonment.

At one level Lloyd George displayed moral and physical cou, rage when he opposed the war against the Boers, at another level he was a physical coward terrified of air raids in the first and second world wars.

I lived a short walk from Highbury in Finsbury Park but the Germans had bombed our state - of - the - art stadium during one of the Luftwaffe's many air raids.

You have to defense the Stanford power run, then Oregon's offense, then the air raids.

For the second day, barbaric air raids continue on #Douma city, more than 50 air strikes and heavy artillery shelling targeted the city since this morning @syriacivildefe teams work urgently to respond to the injured and evacuate them from the devastated areas.

The Houthis have stepped up ballistic missile attacks on the kingdom in what it says is retaliation for the air raids.

Russia and the Syrian regime have apparently responded with massive air raids since Filipov was killed.

The Russian air raids, launched ostensibly to target Islamic State, have mostly hit other, foreign - backed rebel groups, the United States says.

As the suicidal pilots reached their target, they began an attack that would supersede any air raid in history.

Do the air raid sirens really make much difference?

The sweep and urgency of the statements from both sides of the Atlantic called to mind a computer - age version of a Cold War air raid drill, but asking citizens to upgrade their passwords rather than duck and cover.

A girl's parents died in an air raid.

When one of the Nazis, hit by a falling beam during an air raid, was listed as killed, again there was applause.

If the Israelis suffer casualties and then stage an air raid, bring in the old eye - for - an - eye bit.

They have not been issuing gas masks and practising air raid drills, but from the hysteria of some articles, you would think that extra first - aiders should be trained.

He took along his camera for the occasion and had taken pictures of the children just a few hundred yards from the house when they heard the air raid sirens begin to sound.

It is easy for a cathedral to forgive, for a provost who has not lost a child in the air raid.

When your team becomes more philosophically extreme than the air raid master himself, there's probably at least some necessity to it.

We'll see if the Cougs can keep it up, but at least this proves that S&P + isn't specifically formulated to underestimate orthodox air raid teams, huh?

They're 4 - 0 heading into conference play with a neutral - siter against Air Raid kin Texas A&M still to go.

Coordinator Matt Mumme, meanwhile, is the scraggly - haired son of scraggly - haired air raid inventor Hal.

Those numbers could explode in new coach Dana Holgorsen's Air Raid offense.

A guy who has played in two Air Raid systems, couldn't beat out Pat Mahomes for the starting job, and comes from the same school as Jared Goff (who had a disastrous rookie season).

Scheme (e.g. triple - option or return to Air Raid) and an out - of - the - box approach to recruiting are some ideas I've come up with, but I'm not sure there's a SABR type way to evaluate high school football talent to exploit inefficiencies in that kind of player market.

In two years starting, he averages 8.5 YPA which indicates he's pretty aggressive going downfield (USC is one of the few pro-style offenses left in CFB that doesn't inflate QB stats with air raid concepts).

Based on just that game, you have to take his productions with the same grain of salt you take QB and WRs coming out of an air raid offense.

It also helps that of the coaches in the Mike Leach air raid tree, Holgorsen has embraced the run more than others.

Some game's he will look like the future of the position (heard that before), other game's he will look like a college air raid QB with a big arm that cant transition to a pro style offense....