Word: blitz
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...Without any sort of Ulysses to ensure its recovery, London did go up in flames, twice: the Great Fire in 1666 and the blitz of World War II each destroyed most of the city; rebuilding hasn’t stopped since. In the past few weeks I’ve been doing some rebuilding of my own version of London, and, as these things go, London’s been doing some rebuilding of me. But I won’t finish, can’t. There’s too much complexity here, too much living...
...jihad in Afghanistan, Somalia, Bosnia and Algeria. "We instruct the jihadi youth to direct their efforts against the Crusaders," he commanded. "Kill them wherever you find them." On May 1, four terrorists carried out an assault in Yanbu on the Red Sea, killing five foreigners. The late May blitz on Khobar was far more devastating. Beginning about 7:30 a.m., four young fanatics shot up the offices of oil-industry firms at two locations in the Persian Gulf coastal city. They murdered the British vice president of a Saudi company, then dragged his body from the back of their...
...operation was at last launched. As with so much else in World War II, the U.S. had more of it than any other belligerent. Winston Churchill tendered the U.S. its first gift of time by standing steadfast against the Nazi juggernaut in the Battle of Britain and the Blitz in 1940 and 1941. Thereafter, the U.S. had time in copious abundance, thanks mostly to the skill and cunning of F.D.R.--including, especially, his wily management of relations with Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, whose much abused people were plunged into unspeakable woe by the German invasion of June...
...Despite the risk of alienating its closest international friend, Dili has waged a global propaganda blitz. "We slowly came to realize the bad faith Australia was showing," says Gusm?o of Australia's 2002 withdrawal from the International Court of Justice on maritime boundary disputes. "?Be realistic, it's only a dream,' Australia said about our claims. They wanted to preserve what they had secured from Indonesia when we were occupied. As if we were blind...
...film needs battles, and Troy has nearly a dozen of them, employing arrows, spears, great balls of fire rolling down a slope to crush the enemy. The beach blitz has Achilles and his Myrmidons capturing the territory for Agamemnon in an Omaha Beach--like assault (Saving Priam's Rival). But thousands fighting thousands is war; man fighting man is drama. Troy boasts plenty of good old Hellenic fist power. Paris vs. Menelaus, Hector vs. Ajax the Great, Achilles vs. Hector--it's a dream card at Madison Square Garden, and the movie choreographs each set-to with burly ingenuity. This...