Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moment approached, no candidate could claim anywhere near a majority of solid, blitz-proof delegates. Like its well-remembered counterpart of 1940, this would be an open convention. Most of the convention's 1,094 votes were still uncommitted to any candidate. The delegates' decisions were still deferred for many reasons: honest indecision, a desire to make a deal, a desire to be on the winning side...
...week Topolski's latest oils and drawings were on exhibition in London's Leicester Galleries and his caricatures brightened the pages of the current Vogue. The sketches (of Churchill, Daladier, Paul Ramadier and Bertrand Russell, among others) were better than his frightening, jumbled paintings of battles and blitz, courts and courtrooms...
...Move. Tacho toyed with the idea of a blitz invasion of Costa Rica. But he could hardly tag this a crusade against Communism when Costa Rica's No. 1 Communist, Manuel Mora, had just been run out of the country...
...Houghton Mifflin and Book-of-the-Month Club will publish the complete text this summer). This week, Churchill turned over to LIFE and the Times Vol. II of his memoirs, covering Britain's darkest-and finest-hours, the period that saw the fall of France and the 1940 blitz on London. This second installment of his five-volume memoirs is scheduled to appear next January...
Coastal Fortress. One problem for the Jews was how to fight a war and at the same time keep their coastal farms and factories going. For the moment the accent had to be on the military phase. In their blitz of the past two weeks the Jews had tried to consolidate their coastal base of operations from Haifa to below Tel Aviv. To get rid of one Arab enclave, Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorists tried to capture Jaffa, which the U.N. partition plan gave to the Arabs. British troops checked the Irgun attack...