Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a swing through northern and western Honduras, 45 priests (from nine religious orders in six Latin American countries and Spain), who came to reinforce the local clergy, will move on next month to prepare for a similar blitz effort in neighboring Nicaragua. Said President Villeda Morales: "We reiterate our determination to put into divine hands the destiny of Honduras." Pope John XXIII declared that from the new dedication "the graces of heaven have been falling in torrents on your souls...
...well as Latin America. Latin Americans, citing a world market of about 39 million bags v. production of about 51 million, wanted the Africans to join them in last year's pact, but the Africans were more interested in bigger markets than in price. Brazil's selling blitz cut sharply into African sales, persuaded Africans to sign...
...Djakarta he assailed President Eisenhower; in Baghdad he conferred with officials of the Russian, Czech, Bulgarian and Yugoslav missions. In Communist Yugoslavia he told interviewers: "It is our wish to see and perhaps apply Yugoslav experiences in Cuba"; in New Delhi he told the pro-Communist weekly Blitz: "We have on our soil a North American base. It is easy to shake off Batista and the landlords, but not American bases." In Ceylon he told newsmen: "Don't believe the American press." In Karachi, where he spent 55 minutes of a scheduled one-hour interview fulminating against "American agents...
...those days the rigid young sentries in their scarlet tunics and high black bearskins were symbols of imperial glory: Englishmen and foreigners alike respectfully held their tongues and kept their distance. But after World War II was won with a minimum of pomp and circumstance, and the blitz took away war's glamour, the solemn and expressionless sentries marching mechanically 25 paces this way and 25 paces that no longer seemed to inspire the same old respect. At least not to tourists, especially Americans...
...blitz raid of Sunday, Dec. 29, 1940, was one of the worst. "The weight of the attack," wrote Sir Winston Churchill later, "centered upon the City of London itself. It was an incendiary classic. Nearly 1,500 fires had to be fought. Eight Wren churches were destroyed or damaged. The Guildhall was smitten by fire and blast, and St. Paul's Cathedral was only saved by heroic exertions. A void of ruin at the very center of the British world gapes upon us to this day." But for all its grim destruction, the "incendiary classic" may yet have some...