Word: blitz
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After releasing his book, My Prison without Bars, in which he admitted to betting on baseball, former Reds and Phillies great Pete Rose went on a massive media blitz to promote his new work and apologize for his past transgressions—well kinda. In one particular interview with U.S News and World Report, Rose attempted to justify his misdeeds...
...begun a gradual re-entry into the whirlwind of full-time presidential politics. Her first conspicuous move is the launch this week of Ten Minutes from Normal, a memoir of a decade spent as George W. Bush's spokeswoman and alter ego. For the White House, the blitz of publicity accompanying the book's publication couldn't come at a better time. Bush aides are counting on Hughes' hagiographic portrait of the President as a near flawless leader in turbulent times to serve as an antidote to the searing criticism in the recent book by Bush's former counterterrorism czar...
McAuliffe capped the goal blitz with her own tally, putting the puck top shelf past Cornell goalie Beth Baronick—who had only entered the game half a minute earlier for the Big Red’s starting goalie, Flora Vineberg...
Though a late entrant into the social Olympiad that is thefacebook.com, Vito Giuliani Mussolini has made up for lost time with a 62-hour straight friending blitz that has amassed a whopping 476 friends as of press time. In Gossip Guy’s unofficial tally of just who on campus has the most free time on his hands, Giuliani is now second only to Andrew Burr (with over 500), having surpassed Jermaine Beatty , who was the early favorite to claim the gold...
...success was what CUE members called a “carrot-and-stick policy” which did not allow students to view their course grades online unless they had either filled out a course evaluation or opted out of doing so. Yale also conducted an advertising blitz when evaluation time neared...