Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quite like old times again!" But the phrase was not wholly felicitous. To many a Londoner it was not quite like old times. The newest raids somehow did not seem to re-create the mood of grim exaltation in which Britain had ridden out the Great Blitz...
...Fighter. In Belleville, lII., husky (6 ft., 180 Ib.) Edwin Taylor, 4-F because of poor vision, put the blitz on four sol diers who taunted him as a slacker. The results : two in the hospital, one runaway, one crawlaway...
...Chairman John D. M. Hamilton, named by Vermont's pro-Willkie Governor Wills as one of the "four-year locusts of Republican politics" (TIME, Jan. 17), retorted last week with charges of a "Willkie blitz." Willkie managers, cried he, have tried to clinch the nomination for their man "before anyone else had a chance to be heard," by "false claims" that Willkie has 300 to 500 delegates already...
...Best estimate of the number bombed out to date: some 7,000,000 of Germany's 60,000,000 civilians. Britons bombed out during the blitz: approximately...
...Cromwell's valet . . . was compelled to wait several hours . . . because Mr. Cromwell's bedroom was occupied by his successor in his wife's affections." (Members of Parliament roasted playboy Member Captain Alec Stratford Cunningham-Reid for playing with Doris in Hawaii during London's blitz.) Cromwell denied the desertion and cruelty charges on which Doris won her Reno case, demanded that the New Jersey courts nullify the divorce. He also recommended that Doris herself disown it as a fraud...