Word: blitz
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...Kennedy team has countered with a media blitz of its own emphasizing the senator's resilience in overcoming personal tragedy...
...minute there is an anti-Hussein coup in Amman we know the Israelis will move into Jordan, and we certainly don't want that." The monarch once despised by the Palestinians is now regarded as a kind of Arab insurance policy against a new Israeli blitz...
...last election from his hometown of Watertown and is trying to fend off a challenge by the city's town clerk, James Fahey. A split of Watertown loyalties could give the election to Cambridge Police Lt William H. Maher, who has launched an expensive, last minute media blitz. Albert DiNicola is the other candidate in the race...
...Nofziger, Reagan's longtime political troubleshooter, who had opposed the tax hikes before being won over by Reagan, coordinated the White House's lobbying blitz. More than 35 business and trade groups joined the effort. The President spoke with some balky lawmakers three or four times. Expecting his fourth phone call, Republican Gerald Solomon of New York left a message that he was sick and hid out in the House cloakroom. He voted...
Israel's blitz into Lebanon and its brutal stranglehold on Beirut have aroused doubt, controversy, criticism and apprehension in the U.S. and within Israel itself. But one side effect of the episode is likely to be received as good news in both Washington and Jerusalem. Whatever damage it has done to the long-term interests of the U.S. and Israel, the crisis already seems to have increased the isolation of Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi...