Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father is a local coal merchant who still drives his cart through town) by 14,198 votes, a 26% loss for Labor since last year's national election. Labor also won only limited victories in the whitecollar, middle-class suburb of Bexley (loss since 1945: 84%) and in blitz-shattered, slum-infested North Battersea (loss...
...American baseball. He completed his education in England and France and, as a private in the French army, was evacuated from Dunkirk. Charles de Gaulle rescued him from sentry duty outside the French embassy in London, where French sentries had to stand without shelter throughout the worst of the blitz. We got to know him as De Gaulle's in telligent, well-informed, fair-minded liaison man with the English language press in Algiers and Paris...
More dangerous than the atom itself is the idea that a quick atomic blitz would defeat any great nation. No possible atomic aggressor would be able to think that if other great nations are automatically prepared. In mutual atomic war, even the "victor" will suffer "destruction incomparably greater than that suffered by any defeated nation in history. . . . Under those circumstances no victory, even if guaranteed in advance-which it never is-would be worth the price...
...with brackish Pierre Laval, who confides: "Money ... is like toilet paper, when you need it you need it bad." With this pearl rattling in his diplomatic pouch, Lanny leaves for London. He has to get a wiggle on because Upton Sinclair wants him 1) to take in the blitz, 2) to get back to F.D.R. in time to ram through the destroyer deal. He does both, easy as falling off a green baize table, and Roosevelt admiringly admits: "I need you, and that's no applesauce...
...last week the whole island was affected. Even trains couldn't run. Said Director Antonio Melis of Florence's Entomological Center: "It's a biological phenomenon unknown in history. . . ." Unless the blight were checked within a fortnight, the locusts would develop wings, blitz the estimated 200,000-ton grain crop, sorely needed for relief. And, warned Professor Melis, should the locusts survive into July, when they lay eggs, next year's generation might "completely extinguish the island's plant life...