Word: blitzed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Basically, show business is politics. And politics, with its media blitz, is very much show biz. The big difference is that politics is real, very real, and that show business is a fantasy world...
...turned into a political event?a grace note that somehow was not communicated to his nephew Joe, who made a fiery attack on the Carter Administration's energy and economic policies. That day, at a strategy session, Kennedy's top advisers made plans for a money-raising blitz that will qualify him for federal campaign matching funds within a week's time. This requires raising $5,000 in gifts of $250 or less in each of at least 20 states...
...returning papers are buoyed by reader surveys that predict a wholesale return of the faithful when the Times resumes on Nov. 13 and the Sunday Times on Nov. 18. To entice them, the Times is planning to spend between $2 million and $4 million on a promotional blitz. It also will publish special eight-page supplements on major issues of the past year, on developments in the arts and on books. For the record, there will be three eight-page obituary supplements. The Sunday Times, which bought serialization rights to Henry Kissinger's memoirs more than a year...
...Crimson did not threaten again and the afternoon climaxed in a miserable series with 1:30 remaining when the Tiger blitz resulted in three incomplete passes, and a sack...
...through the fourth quarter. "We couldn't hold the ball against Harvard," Navarro said. "That's how much we respected Harvard's offense with Burke St. John in there. We didn't find out until late in the game how we could stop their passing with the blitz...