Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lately boss of Army medical research, the committee concluded that things are pretty good now, but the explosive expansion of the last decade in outlays for medical research must go on at least until 1970. The goal then: $900 million to $1 billion a year. In effect: no blitz, but a powerhouse drive down the field...
...birth. Though utterly different in origin, these disorders have something in common with paralytic polio-they cause long-term if not lifelong disablement, require vast sums for costly care of helpless victims. The N.F.I.P. sees these targets as first of a series, hopes to conquer them by the same blitz tactics that it used against polio, then move against other diseases that cause permanent disability-with its resulting family and social problems...
...little bit reminiscent of England's finest hour. When 50,000 London busmen went out on strike last week, some officials gloomily predicted utter chaos. Instead, London recaptured its blitz spirit. In crowded Tubes, people stepped on one another's toes with the utmost amiability. Car owners met all sorts of interesting people by picking up hitchhikers, and one bowlered businessman came to work each day by water-scootering happily down the Thames. Commented Pub Owner Ted Wright: "I feel healthier-less diesel fumes around." Trumpeted the Daily Mail proudly: LONDON CAN TAKE...
Bobby rapidly demonstrated his gift for Rapid Transit (a form of chess that allows only ten seconds per move) and Blitz (which allows no time but the split second for actually moving a piece). But after having been beaten just once, he never entered another of the club's Rapid Transit contests. If he could not win, he would not play...
...this detail of mosquito behavior that the World Health Organization and other international bodies, plus 60 governments, are now basing a $500 million blitz campaign to wipe malaria off the world's disease map within ten years...