Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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About a quarter of London will have to be rebuilt after the war. Bombs (Blitz I) and robombs (Blitz II) have left few streets in the world's largest city without ruins or cratered lots, few buildings undamaged. Last week Reconstruction Minister Lord Woolton totted up the damage...
...week ago." began tall, young Duncan Sandys (rhymes with ampersands), facing a packed press conference in London. Lieut. Colonel Sandys -also M.P. and husband of Churchill's daughter Diana-who has been in charge of Britain's defense against buzzbombs, then gave the facts of the robot blitz, now ended...
...Among London's hard hit districts (Croydon, Woolwich, Greenwich, Orpington, Wandsworth, Lewisham, Beckenham, West Ham, Camberwell and Lambeth) Croydon got it worst. Only 211 of its citizens were killed but 75% of its houses were damaged or destroyed (Coventry's percentage in the 1940 blitz...
Time for Rejoicing? Britons naturally felt relieved at the end of the robot blitz. A few of them regarded this feeling as premature, fearing that V-2s might soon be dropping on Britain from within Germany itself. But few if any appeared to realize the terror that the robot still might represent for Britain...
...where footpads lurked. There played the great Kean and the great Macready, while society folk goggled at the heavy curtain of looking glass that later had to be ripped out because its weight was pulling down the roof. Bits of the curtain served as dressing room mirrors till the blitz...