Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tactical weapon claim it is more "unmoral" than other nuclear bombs, partly because it can kill people without destroying buildings or vehicles, and partly because it is easy to use. The accusations do not make sense, since the weapons might actually help deter a Soviet armored blitz against Western Europe and thus diminish the danger of war. The real problem with the neutron bomb is essentially political: because of internal opposition in a number of European countries to the stationing of new U.S. weapons on their soil, the key NATO allies are likely to continue to resist deployment...
...today," quipped Office of Management and Budget Director David Stockman, emerging from one economic policy session. He spoke only half in jest: the Administration is shooting for a reduction of $15 billion in fiscal 1981 and as much as $35 billion the following year. As part of his economic blitz, Reagan will deliver a public address on his views this week. He also plans to discuss his program on the Hill and have lunch with congressional leaders...
Perhaps the best group of stories in this collection deals with England during World War II, especially London in the blitz. Bowen courageously, stubbornly stayed in her house there, when many friends had taken to the countryside to escape the German bombardment. While the city shook and plaster fell, Bowen collected images and wove them into stories that hauntingly balanced civilization above an abyss. In the Square notes how the bombs were returning London to nature: "The sun, now too low to enter [the square] normally, was able to enter brilliantly at a point where three of the houses...
...finds it hard to explain what the bombing is like: "As it does not connect with the rest of life, it is difficult, you know, to know what one feels. One's feelings seem to have no language for anything so preposterous." Someone present replies, sympathetically, that the blitz "will have no literature...
...decided early on to be "a spectator of history" and succeeded admirably. His itinerary is a check list of modern crises. He was in Mexico in 1938, during a persecution of the Catholic Church, and in London during the blitz. He learned to love Viet Nam and opium during the last years of French occupation and spent 24 nervous hours at the doomed camp of Dien Bien Phu. Then it was on to Kenya for the Mau Mau uprising and later to a leper colony during the final days of the Belgian Congo. He sampled pornography in Batista...