Word: blitz
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...They loved the idea of blitz chess," said Edelman, referring to the high-speed chess that will be played for some of the matches "Speed chess is good...
...cold irony of the Pied Piper legend, written out with speaking parts for everyone except the rats. Writhing as he pares away wrecked body parts, Kraft imagines, for the duration of a novella, cynical child abuse during the evacuation of London's children at the time of the blitz (rural lechers taking the pretty preteens into their homes, ignoring the fat and ugly). His mental videotape also conjures, or recalls, a young Thai girl blown to red vapor by a land mine...
...banks are vigorously working to recapture their share of business lending. This spring Chemical Bank, the nation's third largest, kicked off the biggest marketing blitz in its history to attract small and medium-size business borrowers. An army of 1,800 lending officers, including bank president Walter Shipley and chairman John McGillicuddy, went knocking door to door at 5,000 companies across five states. "Am I concerned about Wall Street firms and investment bankers coming into the market? Absolutely," says Frank Lourenso, who heads Chemical's midmarket lending division. "They are real players, and I take them very seriously...
...Administration sent two separate emissaries (Solicitor General Drew Days and legislative liaison Howard Paster) to suggest that she withdraw voluntarily, but she refused. Sensing she would never get her hearing before the Senate, she launched a media blitz that left the Clinton team stunned and ( angry with her for failing to be a team player. "Lani was not going to pull herself out," says an Administration official, adding pointedly, "It's the M.O. of the civil-rights movement that they are not satisfied until they can go out, declare defeat and say, 'We got screwed.' That's what they wanted...
After a general media blitz, followed by hundreds of calls to MGH by AIDS sufferers requesting trials of the new drug therapy, however, Chow and others scrambled to strongly caution AIDS sufferers that the discovery was only a first step toward a cure for the deadly disease...