Word: blitz
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Berlin's biggest blitz lasted only 30 minutes, but they were minutes of eternity. When the planes' singing motors had faded again into the distance, when the flak's roar had dwindled, Berliners climbed shakily from their cellars to find their city blazing in dozens of different places. Whole blocks were pulverized by some 500 tons of bombs, parts of the city paralyzed, with no gas or electricity. At week's end Berlin still was digging out its dead-the official count was 486 persons killed, 377 seriously wounded...
...response to the "blitz-course" will be treated as an indication of the desirability of continuing such a course for all institutions throughout the Commonwealth...
...Blitz Family Robinson...
...London restaurant during an air raid. Many an actor arrived at the studio in time to play a part he had just experienced. One player showed up in bandages-sole survivor of a high-explosive bomb which had smashed his flat. Sympathetic listeners dubbed the program The Blitz Family Robinson...
...that the blitz is past, the plot has turned to the work of decontamination quads, convoy defense, firewatching, visits to the symphony and variety shows, etc. Worldwide listeners still send their favorite characters packets of tea and sugar, bundles of butter and chocolate. Like U.S. soap operas, however, this one has roused some dissenters. One weary British Tommy wrote of the Robinsons, in their own dialect, from the African desert. Said he: "They are proper stupid...