Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three octaves her voice once covered, only the middle range remains unchanged." After the blitz, Callas remained incommunicado. Said her manager: "We don't argue with critics," though it did seem pesky of them to count up "the notes that went wrong, and not the thousands of notes that went right...
...Rambler blitz cooled off the defending NCAA champs who connected on only two field goals in the last 14 minutes of regulation play. With four seconds to go, Loyola's All-American Jerry Harkness pumped in a jump shot that knotted the score at 54-54 and sent the contest into overtime...
...government's deception of the people on the matter of nuclear war. Despite the claims of some shelter supporters, the Civil Defense program has not presented Americans with an honest picture of nuclear war. Most of the literature sounds as if it were written for the London blitz, and fails to see the qualitative difference between the V-2 and ICBM. Cambridge, for example, distributes one book-let that was written in 1950 and discusses an atomic bomb the size of the ones used over Japan. Another booklet begins, "Remember grandma's pantry, its shelves loaded with food, ready...
...head," recalls Joshua David Casswell, who was the prosecutor in the court proceedings that followed. But to Casswell's chagrin, Loughan dismissed his confession as the kind of casual lie he enjoyed telling the police, claimed he spent the night of the murder sheltered from the blitz in London's Warren Street subway station-and produced five independent witnesses to prove it. "This is the most extraordinary case I've ever known," said the judge. "On the one hand a full confession, and on the other an unshakable alibi." The jury, equally puzzled, could not reach...
...them have been restored; one of the few considered for eventual demolition was St. Mary Aldermanbury, probably named after the ancient alderman's court that once stood near by, and rebuilt by Wren after the Great Fire of 1666. Although the roof and furnishings were destroyed in the blitz, the walls, interior columns, some doorways and a handsomely garlanded east window remain...