Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blitz purge of the building-workers' locals was big news in West Germany last week, reflecting a new awareness of an infiltration that most West Germans had long thought themselves immune to. Though the Communists are almost powerless at the polls (they lost their 14 remaining Bundestag seats in the last national elections), they have deeply infiltrated West German industry...
...Leverett House football team yesterday established itself as a potential power by defeating Adams House, last year's champion, 6 to 2. The hard running of captain Stu Dunsker and Charlie Blitz and the line's steady defensive play brought victory to the Bunnies...
...Gold Coasters got their two points at the beginning of the first quarter when Les Archambeau, sophomore quarterback, was caught behind the goal line on an attempted pass play. Leverett's score came in the second period on an off-tackle slant with Blitz carrying...
...Britain, desperate for trained pilots to stem Hitler's air blitz, set up the first of her three Eagle Squadrons, made up of U.S. volunteers, in 1940. Two years later, with the U.S. in the war, Britain transferred the Eagles wholesale to the A.A.F., was duly compensated for the R.A.F.'s cost of training them...
...Dday. There is the bullet-spitting ex-auto salesman, bucking for general, who comes drunkenly apart at the seams once he gets a briefing on the German fortifications in his attack sector. There are camp followers, goldbricks and, for a touch of sentimental local color from the blitz-days, some village home guards fumbling earnestly with their simulated weapons...