Word: blitz
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...Germans, the authors of blitzes, could not understand a blitz in reverse. The quick push on Tunis, though it was the obvious move, gave the enemy a shock greater than that of all our shells and bombs...
During the worst days of London's blitz a church hung out a sign: IF YOUR KNEES KNOCK, KNEEL ON THEM...
Shean watched the first rounds of the London blitz from a sunken road near Gravesend. While the Nazi bombers came over in formations of 30, a suburban bus drew up. "All hell seemed to have broken loose in the air above and all around us, "but the bus conductor sat quietly totting up his receipts. The guard told a story: "There was a bloody monkey hanging by his bloody tail in the jungle . .. and along came a bloody air-raid warden. One monkey says to the other monkey, 'Look out, Jock, here's this bloody bastard comin...
...effective these preparations would be against the dreadful emergency, no one could tell. London also had elaborate schemes, arranged for the blitz of September 1940, found some of its most care fully considered plans too elaborate and impracticable under the disrupting test of high explosives and incendiaries. But New Yorkers could congratulate themselves on one important fact: New York City's plans had been made after careful study of the latest English system...
...London, as a full director, MacDonald made the documentary Men of the Lightship, turned out a dozen or so successful and forgettable potboilers, filmed the blitz fires of London from the dome of St. Paul's. His shyness once drew from King Vidor an indirect compliment: "That guy would have been a top Hollywood director but he just didn't know how to blow his own horn." Said MacDonald last fortnight, to a preview group of film and pressmen: "These combat scenes can be done in Hollywood and you can do them very nicely, without loss of life...