Word: blitz
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...Bill Veeck, the Hall of Fame owner who organized the disco-album bonfire at Comiskey Park in the '70s, to do their promotions. So they did have Duct Tape Night, Magic Night with illusionist Aaron Radatz, a Christian concert after an Angels game and Baseball Card Blitz, where kids under 15 got to trample one another on a field littered with 50,000 packs of baseball cards. But Veeck didn't go far enough. First of all, he should have removed the Tigers from those baseball-card packs. And he should have replaced the entire lineup with Tiger look-alike...
...We’re gonna blitz him quite often just to throw him off early,” senior cornerback Benny Butler said. “They like to throw a lot of timing routes...
...last week Barnes, 50, was slapped with a subpoena from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). It alleged that he had posted online--for the world to steal--digital copies of songs by Savage Garden, Marvin Gaye and the Eagles. "This is like shock and awe," says Barnes. "Blitz them until they submit...
...hide? Let her face her attacker with honor. I also believe that, particularly in the case of celebrities on trial, the victim should have the option of exploiting the media as well. Right now, whether her accusations are true or false, she is being vilified by a media blitz. She should be able to fight back and she cannot do that and hide her face. In short, we no longer live in ancient times where rape meant that a woman was permanently, irrevocably tarnished for life. She should come out and speak to the world without fear. P.L. Malino...
...that competitive spelling can be construed as a form of child abuse. All that study, all those desperately furrowed brows, all that tension--for what? Well, in this competition, to spell words you'll probably never use--or even hear again--in any form of civilized discourse. Director Jeffrey Blitz is sympathetic to the eight kids he follows through this agony, and they and their parents largely seem to have the contest in wry perspective. And we do get caught up in their fates. Implicitly, Blitz seems to be asking but not quite answering this question: What's the point...