Word: blitz
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...melodramatic, perhaps. It won't happen to your boy playing blitz in Washington Square Park...
...Safekeeping, a witty, Wodehousian gavotte from the confines of an English boys' school to the streets of Harlem, with several beguiling stops between, Mcdonald records the travails of a small boy, heir to a dukedom, who is orphaned during the London blitz and sent off to the uncertain care of a sodden New York City tabloid reporter. Within weeks the boy becomes the target of a Mafia hit man, thereby allowing the author to mix sociology and satire, goofy narrative and authentic terror...
...Communist Party's International Information Department since 1978, a job that makes him the General Secretary's top spokesman. After Gorbachev ascended to power, Zamyatin was rumored to be out of favor, but he has reappeared on the job in a dramatic way, managing the spectacular presummit public relations blitz that has put the Soviets in good position for the Geneva meeting...
Curtis took only 34 seconds to score her first goal of the game from a blitz downfield...
...that hasn't slowed the latest blitz of deals. December 2004 saw $147 billion in mergers vs. $41 billion a year earlier, according to Thomson Financial. In January an additional $150 billion worth was announced. A recent survey by Bank of America Business Capital found that 23% of chief financial officers expect to do a major deal this year...