Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...game behind Gary Kasparov in the world chess championship at Moscow's Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, an upset of a different sort was taking place in Denver's Radisson Hotel. The world's top-ranked chess machine, a $14 million Cray X-MP/ 48 supercomputer running a program called Blitz, was about to lose the North American computer-chess championship to Hitech, a rack of custom-made silicon chips attached to a $20,000 Sun minicomputer...
...refined literary instinct, which understands fiction's obligation to define values and render discriminations and judgments. This she does in clear, astringent prose, even though the London Dorns seem oddly disconnected and unaffected by events leading up to and including World War II. Where, for example, is the Blitz, the shortages, the concern for relations left behind on the Continent? At their hotel in Bordighera, Frederick and his wife welcome soldiers under any flag who are willing to trade food for the inn's good wines...
Student protests against human rights violations will take a different turn at Harvard next week when the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel sponsors a two-day letter-writing blitz in support of Soviet Jews...
...pressure, we'll have to blitz and play man-to-man," he said. "That's our strength...
...preparation for the blitz, Harvard officials cancelled classes and shut down all offices for only the third time in this century. Facilities Maintenance kept a full staff of 200 workers, University Police doubled its force, calling in 15 overtime policemen, and the dining halls stayed open. The rest of Harvard's 20,000 employees and its 15,000 students...