Word: blitz
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...legislator who tries to keep the ax from falling risks putting his own neck under an ax at the polls. But the warning did not prevent opponents in and out of Congress, some of whom had initially seemed stunned into silence by the vigor of Reagan's budget blitz, from recovering their voices. Though Reagan still seems likely to win a great deal of what he wants, it will only be after a fight in which some of his specific proposals could be substantially reshaped...
...plans to counter any foot dragging. David Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, plans to hold daily press conferences this week, flanked by Cabinet officers who will defend and explain their portion of the spending cuts. White House officials are making themselves available for a blitz of TV appearances, and their Cabinet colleagues are setting up to brief press and special-interest groups...
...tactical weapon claim it is more "unmoral" than other nuclear bombs, partly because it can kill people without destroying buildings or vehicles, and partly because it is easy to use. The accusations do not make sense, since the weapons might actually help deter a Soviet armored blitz against Western Europe and thus diminish the danger of war. The real problem with the neutron bomb is essentially political: because of internal opposition in a number of European countries to the stationing of new U.S. weapons on their soil, the key NATO allies are likely to continue to resist deployment...
Perhaps the best group of stories in this collection deals with England during World War II, especially London in the blitz. Bowen courageously, stubbornly stayed in her house there, when many friends had taken to the countryside to escape the German bombardment. While the city shook and plaster fell, Bowen collected images and wove them into stories that hauntingly balanced civilization above an abyss. In the Square notes how the bombs were returning London to nature: "The sun, now too low to enter [the square] normally, was able to enter brilliantly at a point where three of the houses...
...finds it hard to explain what the bombing is like: "As it does not connect with the rest of life, it is difficult, you know, to know what one feels. One's feelings seem to have no language for anything so preposterous." Someone present replies, sympathetically, that the blitz "will have no literature...