Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dingy brick wall of No. 9 Grosvenor Square, where London workmen are still repairing blitz damage, there is an inconspicuous blackened plaque: "In this house lived John Adams, first American Minister to Great Britain, May 1785-March 1788, afterwards second President of the United States...
...Blame. Morison makes no bones about fixing the blame: ". . . the United States Navy was woefully unprepared, materially and mentally, for the U-boat blitz on the Atlantic Coast . . . this unpreparedness was largely the Navy's own fault." While ships were going to the bottom, the Army & Navy wrangled for 18 months over control of antisub aircraft, never reached a solution. The reason? Says Morison bluntly: "Conflicting personalities and service ambitions." Meanwhile four Navy destroyer schools were teaching four different methods of coping with U-boats and "the Navy Department laid such stress on the security of communications that they...
Honolulu marked her re-emergence as a pleasant and peaceful subtropical crossroads last week. For the first time since the "blitz day" attack on Pearl Harbor, citizens celebrated Aloha Week, the Hawaiian equivalent of "pioneer days" as observed in the continental...
...Spaghetti He Eats." In Rome the dissident Socialist newspaper L'Umanitá, which dislikes about equally Russian Communism and U.S. capitalism, summed up the effect of the recent Red slander blitz against the U.S. Said L'Umanit...
...more perilous than it had ever been before, Thomas Burke set out to write a history of what Londoners have done to kill time after dark for the past 600 years. Burke, who died in 1945, had been encouraged by the fact that even in London of the blitz "the Won't-Go-Home-Till-Morning spirit was never extinguished...