Word: blitzed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just as the detective was saying "The person we want for murder is . . ." Parliament debated, and the Queen took afternoon tea, by candlelight. Millions of homes were without heat, electricity or hot water for long periods, and whole areas of London resembled the capital during the wartime blitz. Darkness and gloom had descended on Britain because 125,000 Electrical Trades Union (E.T.U.) workers had decided to stage a slowdown. It was so effective that at any given moment during the week a quarter of Britain was without electricity...
...spelled it out officially, but it is clear enough what the President is up to with the recent blitz of air operations against North Viet Nam and the implicit threat of more. U.S. troops have been coming out of Viet Nam at the rate of about 12,500 a month. By mid-1971, according to public pronouncements by both Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers, nearly all U.S. troops will be out of combat. North Vietnamese infiltration into the South totaled 50,000 men in the first seven months of 1970, according to the U.S. command...
...accomplished rapscallion, occasionally wicked enough to make his later repentance believable. Not only did he have "an active sex life," but Rice even implies that a prewar romance during Merton's Cambridge days in England produced a child (who died, with its mother, in the London blitz). Rice stimulates curiosity with his fast-cut, almost cinematic images of his subject's wide-ranging mind: Merton's opposition to World War II because "if we fight Hitler, we will become like him, too"; his prescient 1963 analysis of the bitterness of black revolt; his final turning toward Buddhism...
...allows him to shake off tacklers as though they were so many rag dolls. "Plunkett is the best drop-back passer I've seen in college football," says U.C.L.A. Coach Tommy Prothro. "He has real strength and good speed. If you go all out to blitz him, he'll eat you alive." Adds University of Oregon Coach Jerry Frei, a 33-10 victim of Plunkett's passing: "I'm very happy to see him graduate...
After releasing its list two weeks ago, the Corporation began to blitz Harvard Houses and hold a second round of meetings with interested student, faculty and alumni groups. One incredulous senior faculty member could not understand why the Corporation had visited him three times seeking advice on possible candidates. When he asked a colleague whether he was supposed to know all these candidates, the man replied, "You don't have to know...