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The next year, her father was killed in an air-raid.
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So maybe the air-raid siren was appropriate after all.
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But there were no air-raid sirens or overt signs of a country under bombardment.
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Annan, who died in 1983, exhibited with the leftwing Artists International Association, and once featured in a morale-boosting wartime show in an air-raid shelter beside work by Augustus John.
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Suddenly, I was back in my bed in Pittsburgh, wailing like an air-raid siren, my whole body shaking — nerves coiled like sparking telephone wires.
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The Dead End Kids would have been familiar with one of Wapping's bigger air-raid shelters at Hermitage Wharf.
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And what about the giants, the child wonders: If they are the gods' enemies, why does she see a giant-face in the mirror, "peering at herself from behind the snout of her gas-mask during air-raid drill"?
Gods and Monsters Tom Shippey 2012
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That day, when the air-raid siren sounded, some students took shelter in an underground bunker and the rest of us ran to the edge of the airfield, then waited in a ditch.
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During World War II, Mr. Shearing performed frequently with violinist St é phane Grappelli, sometimes in air-raid shelters.
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Though Sunday night the air-raid signal went off in the nearby town of Hudson, Wis., (signaling the onset of a severe thunderstorm/hail storm), most of the players slept right through after Haley's tone-setting physical afternoon practice wore them out.
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