Word: blitzed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...contrast, Chaban-Delmas, a World War II Resistance hero, conducted a cool, low-key campaign. He hardly hit the hustings, concentrating instead on a few polite dinners and speeches. At the height of the J-J S-S blitz, Chaban-Delmas picked up the pace, but only a bit. Undoubtedly he figured his past popularity and present eminence would pull him through...
...block at His Place, a combination nightclub and crash pad run by Southern Baptist Arthur Blessitt (TIME, Dec. 26), the message is simply love. In Washington, D.C., Blessitt is now conducting a 40-day "evangelical blitz" to mark the end of a 3,000-mile cross-country trek during which he and three companions hauled a 100-lb. cross. Part of Blessitt's message is in the little red Day-Glo stickers (JESUS LOVES YOU, TURN ON TO JESUS) that he and his followers plant everywhere. Part of the message is in the drug argot that he raps...
...Nixon blitz has stirred professional envy among the opposition. Said one high-ranking Democrat: "He's done the kind of job I wish my cats [former Democratic Presidents] had done. Nixon and Agnew have played cold-blooded politics, and they have been goddamned aggressive." If it turns out to be a winning game, Nixon will have overcome severe odds. Only once since 1934 has the President's party gained Senate seats in an off-year election. That was in 1962, when Democrats benefited from a spurt of national unity after the Cuban missile crisis and added four seats...
...defined ritual "games." After further casework and analysis buttressed his findings, he invented breezy names (Frigid Woman; Now I've Got You, You Son of a Bitch; I'm Only Trying to Help You) and published Games in 1964. Intended for therapists, the book scored a sales blitz (650,000 hardcover, 2,000,000 paperback). It also attracted criticism from Berne's colleagues...
...familiar as the ballooning of wages and prices is the inflation of rhetoric, a pneumatic exercise in which the radical left and extreme right, militant blacks, the press-and, of late, the Administration of President Richard Nixon-have all indulged. Still, nothing in recent times has quite equaled the blitz of language that has been employed by the White House to certify and canonize the success of the Cambodian venture...