Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Penn managed one first down, but two plays later, on third-and-one at the 29, linebacker Joe Azelby, on a blitz, jarred the ball loose from quarterback Doug Marzonie, and middle guard Scott Murrer fell...
...better off with the Democratic version? But the tide had clearly begun to turn. O'Neill phoned potential defectors until midnight on Tuesday, trying vainly to keep his colleagues in line. But the next morning the Speaker admitted the imminence of defeat, blaming it on "a telephone blitz like this nation has never seen." Afterward, however, the Speaker joined Rostenkowski in phoning the White House. Said the President: "This is most gracious...
Congress's lopsided approval of the plan (20 to 0 in the Senate Finance Committee, 29 to 3 in House Ways and Means) was the result of one of the year's most determined lobbying drives. One leader of the blitz was Industry Lobbyist Coley O'Brien, who quarterbacked Notre Dame's 1966 national championship tie game against Michigan State. This time his team included the savings league's 500-member legislative conference of bank executives and its 160-strong Political Action Group...
Once again, campaign posters sprouted across the land like wild flowers after a spring rain. At the behest of France's new President, François Mitterrand, the country plunged last week into its second election campaign of 1981, a lightning, three-week blitz to elect a new National Assembly, one that Mitterrand fully intends to see reflect his own Socialist image...
...students also have started to support openly the non-discrimination policy and, in a one-and-a-half-day blitz, 1400 students signed a "Straights for Gays" petition to the Faculty Council, calling for passage of the policy...