Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bomb Ticks Again. Squad Takes Cover." All over London, people thought of Lieut. D. H. Mellor and his men, hovering over the faint, ominous, ticktock. Would the Royal Family watch the bomb go off? Would Buckingham palace, 350 yards away, lose its windows again, as it did during the blitz...
...things-the blitz, the grinding work of the wartime embassy, the immense task of selling Britain to the U.S., and the U.S. and Britain to Russia-held no such terrors for Ambassador Winant. In high conference he was slow, sure, and overwhelmingly honest. After bombings he walked the streets of London, helping dig people out. The British grew to love his gaunt figure. He talked to them in trains, buses, subways, and ministries, and reported shrewdly to the President-whom most of the world thought of as the real U.S. Ambassador to Britain. To Britain's leaders, Winant plugged...
...callers at the little house near the Albert Hall. Old friends, like the Duke of Windsor (see PEOPLE), made a special point of coming over. Outside the house the day "Winnie" left, and on the pier at Southampton, the crowds cheered him almost as they did during the dark blitz days. Somehow it was a very special goodbye...
Sparkplug of UNRRA's present spurt was the Royal Australian Navy's fast-talking, reddish-haired R.G.A. Jackson. He had organized Malta's submarine supply line during the island's blitz. Later, as head of the Middle East Supply Center at Cairo, he had directed the imports of 20 countries. When Herbert Lehman made him senior deputy director of UNRRA, Jackson was given a job bigger but not much different from the one at Malta...
...world's largest city last week, toward the middle of the 20th Century after Christ, five years after the Great Blitz, in the fifth month of the Atomic Age, an eight-year-old boy was asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Said London's child...