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Word: blitz (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...explain this to the undergraduate community, many students ignore the Harvard Gazette where much of the official business of the University is explained, as well as other publications which provide information on issues such as Quad renovations. Fox has lamented that "even if you make an entire propaganda blitz, you reach a very small audience...

Author: By John Rosenthal, | Title: Apathy About Apathy | 5/1/1985 | See Source »

...million mail blitz is only the latest tactic in a $30 million cosmetic campaign being waged by the Moon movement. The church was founded in South Korea in 1954 and now claims 3 million followers worldwide, a figure that some outside researchers consider inflated. The propaganda program has been taking place while Moon, 65, is serving an 18-month term in the Danbury, Conn., federal prison for income tax fraud; he is due for release...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sun Myung Moon's Goodwill Blitz | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

...spun off two top-of-the-pops singles: the ballad I Know Him So Well resided at No. 1 in Britain for four weeks, and the insinuating disco rap One Night in Bangkok is a Top Five smash in half a dozen European countries. Now Chess is readying to blitz America. Two versions of Bangkok have cracked the Top Ten of the U.S. record charts. Next year the omnipotent Shubert Organization is expected to bring the show to Broadway...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: A Hit Show for the Record | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

Other teams relocated in hopes of attracting more interest: 1984's Washington Federals are 1985's Orlando Renegades, while the New Orleans Breakers, who had just finished moving down from Boston, packed up again and are now playing in Portland, Ore. The Chicago Blitz is a paper franchise, having suspended play for this season and dealt out its squad like so many cards to other U.S.F.L. teams. While a few U.S.F.L. franchises are catching on, none of them are breaking even. Indeed, the L.A. Express played its opener last Sunday on welfare, so deep in the red that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: On Flutie's Wing, and a Prayer | 3/4/1985 | See Source »

Responding to a media blitz by a local defense contractor, the Cambridge City Council is going to the polls next November to find out how Cantabrigians feel about nerve gas testing within city limits...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: City Bitties | 2/12/1985 | See Source »

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