Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clamped down on razzle-dazzle bucket-shop operations in the U.S., more & more high-pressure share-pushers have hung out their shingles in Ontario, where securities legislation is liberal. Well aware that war wages have burned new holes in many pockets, these "wheedle whackers" have lately stepped up their blitz...
...never been). He went to school on the Continent-first in Switzerland, then in Germany; and he lived and worked in Germany as a New York Times correspondent for years-all through the shame of Munich and the ravaging of Poland, the fall of France and the blitz of Britain. In fact, his mother and three sisters were caught in Leipzig when Hitler declared war on America-went through three of the heaviest bombings there ("The house was like rubber, bending back and forth, the floor rising up and down like waves...
This is an assignment that might stump a less experienced reporter-but Thompson, now 37, is a veteran foreign correspondent who started covering World War II almost from its beginning, during the Blitz in London. At home and abroad he worked 20 years for U.S. papers-gathered and wrote just about every kind of news "because I wanted to make myself an all around newsman." That background should stand him in good stead in Russia, where he will have to report not just diplomacy and war but the growth of a whole, new civilization...
While yellow crocuses bloomed in Hyde Park, and on Oxford Street bright bunches of daffodils sold for 7s.6d. ($1.50), Britain counted up one day last week and found that it had been at war for 2,000 days & nights-2,000 days & nights of invasion threats, blitz, robombs, immense suffering, gnawing discomfort (equally immense) and imperturbable defiance of near defeat. For most of those 2,000 days Britons had stared into the hollow eyes of disaster and death; it had not occurred to them to wince. Now the unseasonably warm winds brought not only the scents of thawing soil...
...photograph a dance number on the stage of London's Music Box Theater (motto: "We never missed a show"). From a fatherly old stage carpenter on the fly gallery he hears the history of the little music hall's gallant struggle to carry on during the blitz, and the love story of its leading lady, Rosalind Bruce (Miss Hayworth), and a handsome R.A.F. squadron leader (Lee Bowman...