Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back home in Britain last week, the people were only slowly recovering from The Crisis. Some of the worst floods in history were wreaking havoc throughout the country. And at blitz-damaged Buckingham Palace 150 repairmen were holding a protest meeting in "disgust at being employed on such a site when the suffering of the working class through inadequate housing is deplorable." "Personally," Elizabeth told a South African M.P., "I feel rather guilty for being here enjoying myself when the people at home are suffering so." It was a statement worthy of a future Queen, not only because...
...Gallo), Cairo (Abdel Basset El Taher) and Shanghai (the three Wongs) are equally adept. Shaw, a small, taciturn, greying Englishman whose way with automobiles approaches genius, will be long remembered by the squads of photographers he maneuvered through London's blazing streets for vantage shots of the blitz. Gallo is a politically indispensable young man who has somehow made himself welcome at the headquarters of all of Brazil's political parties. Abdel, an Upper Egypt man with the Egyptians' fine feeling for humor and sense of the ridiculous, is master of the endless minutiae of publishing...
When a symphony orchestra tunes up, it traditionally takes A from the oboe. But the oboe's bleat is too feeble to be heard above a blitz of tuning. Its A, though the truest available, does not always sound the same. It may be affected by variations in the temperature, the humidity, the reed -or the oboe player...
...personal crisis as the underlying fact of his nation's woefully low coal production was brought to a head by mean, frosty, snowy, windy weather. The Crisis itself had been a stunning blow (TIME, Feb. 17). Now, as it deepened, it was worse in many ways than the blitz at its worst: it hit everybody. The Government extended its five-hour domestic power switchoff and blackout of cities, villages, industries from Land's End to John o' Groats...
...most terrible of human forces-fright-was abroad in Britain. The people were frightened, as Dunkirk, blitz and buzzbombs had never frightened them...