Raid
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| - | [[Stonewall riots]] @40[http://contexts.org/socimages/2009/02/11/police-raids-and-the-stonewall-riots/] | ||
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| - | :HUNDREDS OF YOUNG MEN WENT ON A RAMPAGE IN GREENWICH VILLAGE, shortly after 3 A.M. yesterday after a force of [[plain-clothes]] men [[raid]]ed a bar that the police said was well known for its [[homo-sexual]] clientele. | ||
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| - | :Thirteen persons were arrested and four policemen injured. The young men threw bricks, bottles, garbage, pennies and a parking meter at the policemen, who had a search warrant authorizing them in investigate reports that liquor was sold illegally at the bar, the Stonewall Inn, 53 Christopher Street, just off Sheridan Square.--[[New York Times]], June 29, 1969[http://contexts.org/socimages/files/2009/02/1times1a.gif] | ||
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| - | Sir [[Thomas Lawrence (painter) |Thomas Lawrence]], ''[[Satan summoning his Legions]]'', 1796-1797. | ||
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| - | ''[[The Sound of Wonder]]'' on [[Finders Keepers Records]]. | ||
| + | # A [[hostile]] or [[predatory]] [[incursion]]; an [[inroad]] or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid [[invasion]] by a cavalry force; a [[foray]]. | ||
| + | # An [[attack]] or invasion for the purpose of making [[arrest]]s, seizing [[property]], or [[plundering]]; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury. | ||
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- A hostile or predatory incursion; an inroad or incursion of mounted men; a sudden and rapid invasion by a cavalry force; a foray.
- An attack or invasion for the purpose of making arrests, seizing property, or plundering; as, a raid of the police upon a gambling house; a raid of contractors on the public treasury.
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