Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When a woman's life becomes the centerpiece of a media blitz, her death will be fitted into the follow-up campaign, somehow. Stirring exhortations, by President Reagan among others, to continue to build space shuttle technology in the spirit and wake of the Challenger have already begun. Don't be surprised if a new shuttle is christened the "Christa." But, as mass media fitted McAuliffe and crew onto the TV screen and the feature page, the human individuality of those heros was cropped out; they were reduced to the equivalent of television characters...
...Indeed, Shultz and his entourage decided not to stay overnight in Bucharest in part because they were unsure whether there would be adequate light and heat. When the Secretary's motorcade left the capital at 6 p.m., the city was already as blacked out as London during the Blitz...
After last month's jury ruling, the case took on the atmosphere of an election campaign. Texaco waged a Lone Star media blitz, telling Texans that what was good for Texaco was good for Texas. An unfavorable judgment, company $ officials suggested, could mean the loss of jobs for 55,000 Texaco employees, including 15,000 in the state...
...Bengals were led by quarterback Boomer Esiason, who threw three touchdown passes and directed a 22-point first-quarter blitz--the most points ever given up by a Dallas defense in an opening period...
Judging from Harvard's blitz of the Midshipmen yesterday and their 8-1 dominance of Trinity on Wednesday, the answer seems...