Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Edelman got a taste of his own tactics last September, when Manhattan lawyer Martin Ackerman launched a proxy war for Datapoint. Edelman responded by entrenching himself more deeply. In a two-day blitz of stock buying, Edelman boosted his stake from 10% to 40%, largely by purchasing stock with cash from Intelogic Trace. Edelman won, but pride had its price: Datapoint shares have fallen an additional 25% in value...
...hitherto unattacked capital. Churchill promptly ordered several retaliatory raids on Berlin. Hitler, unaware of his increasing success against the R.A.F. installations, made the mistake of ordering further retaliations against London. And so, while the R.A.F. won a vital reprieve, the citizens of London had to undergo the blitz, the greatest bombardment any city until then had ever suffered...
...France, he now thought that nightly bombing would make the English rise in revolt against Churchill's pursuit of the war. (It was a miscalculation that the Allies were to repeat in their subsequent bombing of German cities.) Londoners instead took pride in their ability to endure the blitz, to spend long hours in the subway bomb shelters, to put out the fires and go on with their lives. "I saw many flags flying from staffs," Edward R. Murrow reported to America one night over CBS radio. "No one told these people to put out the flag. They simply feel...
...being assembled in France. On one September night 84 barges were hit. Hitler was finally convinced. On Sept. 17 he formally decided "to postpone Sea Lion indefinitely." But the Battle of Britain went on. Between July and November, the Germans lost 1,733 aircraft, the British 915. Though the blitz continued until the following spring, costing about 30,000 lives in London alone, the essential result was that for the first time, Hitler's military power had been beaten back...
...viewers have grown accustomed to the annual late-summer promotional blitz for the networks' fall premieres. But this year the hucksterism has gone far beyond the usual "ABC's the One" and "Come Home to NBC" sloganeering on- screen. Ads for network shows will turn up everywhere from billboards to women's hosiery departments. Besides CBS and NBC linkups with major retailers, a third network, Fox, has teamed with Coca-Cola to promote an Isle of Dreams Treasure Hunt. Only ABC is sitting on the sidelines...