Word: blitz
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After a campus blitz of flyers and pamphlets promoting “Jesus Week,” Sims delivered his stirring testimony before hundreds in front of the Science Center to culminate the religious celebration...
Even before Saturday's reported blitz against Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader had hit the road. American officials privately confirmed reports that a Predator drone armed with Hellfire missiles had earlier missed Omar's convoy by minutes. In Kandahar local residents said U.S. missiles demolished part of his house. Since then, he has bounced from one mountain hideout to the next. Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban's ambassador to Pakistan, indicated that it took him two days to travel from Quetta, just across the border, to Omar's hideaway. But inconvenience has not demoralized the Taliban chief, Zaeef told...
...probably didn't notice, but while U.S. stocks were pummeled last spring, the markets in China soared. So-called B shares of the 100 or so companies listed in Shanghai and Shenzhen that are open to foreign investment nearly tripled in a four-month blitz. The China rally serves as a reminder that it's wise to own stocks with low correlation to the U.S. But if China is your choice, load up on Dramamine, because this boat delivers one rough ride. Since May, the soaring B shares have tumbled...
...gate are changed every two hours and Allah Mahmad makes his own rounds of the perimeter twice nightly. No one sleeps much: there are challenges shouted into the darkness, bursts of fire, the coming and going of guards. At 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. unseen American planes blitz the area near the pass with what look like cluster bombs...
...We’ve got to try to put more pressure on him with the defensive line,” Laborsky said. “We’ll also blitz him to keep him on his toes...