Word: blitz
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...Nazis with their superior knowledge of science are waging the war on a grand scale under the daring leadership of dynamic Hitler. The main theater of the aggressive design set by the samurai became a side-show. While the Nazi technique is blitz, the samurai's is stealthy...
...been through the end of the blitz in London last year, and watched anti-aircraft work in China and Egypt. I've seen nothing to compare with the volume and intensity of the barrage around Moscow...
Last year theaters closed at seven, so that bomb-wary patrons might hurry to inadequate shelters. Taxi drivers received half-crown tips for venturing out in the blitz. Patrons in bathrobes slumped about the lounges of swank hotels. Princess Elizabeth made her first broadcast. The Zoo's lone emu shuddered when the ack-acks whammed...
...deep down into Puritan territory, but were held for downs Disaster struck for Winthrop in the form of a fumble, recovered for a Kirkland score, and George Blanchard hammered his way through tackle for the point. With the score standing 7-0 against them the Puritans tried an air-blitz, but one pass fell into the hands of Manny Holman, speedy Deacon, who dashed down the side lines for the touchdown. The point was missed...
...Whitley bombers dropped miniature earthquakes on Stuttgart, Stettin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and other towns. A British raid on Boulogne was so heavy that it shook and boomed across the Channel, could be heard plainly in British coastal towns. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair dreamily heralded a British blitz "to prepare the way for advance of the Allied Armies into Germany...