Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blitz Trips. Rhodes, 57, who won office in 1962 by pledging to put the budget in shape, levy no new taxes, and expand employment, is a man obsessed with what jobs mean. As he sees it, unemployment is the root of most social ills and thus is the paramount political issue. Last fall, running for a second four-year term, the Governor plastered the state with two-word stickers: "Rhodes-Jobs." This week, when he is sworn in after a smashing re-election win, he can point to a remarkable record. During his tenure Ohio has added 330,000 jobs...
...CENTER: Bill Carr, 22, Florida, 6 ft. 4 in., 233 Ibs. "A pro center has to be able to pick up the blitz," says one scout. "He has to be able to move out and block the middle linebacker, and when the guard pulls to lead an end sweep, the center has to be able to move across and take out the defensive tackle too." Carr fits the bill, and besides, "He blocked for Spurrier for three years, so that's an indication of what...
...Heresy! Heresy! This is the battle cry of the disgruntled bishops. Their time would be better spent if they cried out against some of the ghastly problems confronting our society. May Bishop Pike continue to blitz the bastions of medieval doctrine, and lead the way to a Christianity that means something in this unhappy world...
...satisfy insatiable TV they are selling off rights to more and more recent films. Movies fill prime time five nights a week and will soon fill six. After ABC bought rights to Columbia's The Bridge on the River Kwai for $2,000,000 and scored a ratings blitz, the networks were convinced, if they had had any doubt before. Within days, three studios had been paid $92,500,000 for 118 films. Among them was 20th Century-Fox's Cleopatra, perhaps the most wildly unbusinesslike spectacular ever produced. Originally budgeted for $2,000,000, it wound...
...Harris reported afterward that it had proved a particularly injurious factor for the Democrats nonetheless). He took a savage swipe at Nixon, thereby giving the "chronic campaigner" a boost that may find its way into the history books. And, in denying that he had been planning a last-minute blitz of twelve to 15 states, Johnson advertised his lack of veracity to millions who were even then preparing for his visit...