Word: blitzed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Warsaw Pact's strength continues to grow. But Washington's new stress on NATO has begun showing such encouraging results that U.S. generals now think that the East's ability to mount a successful blitz is decreasing. NATO Commanding General Alexander Haig told TIME: "You don't do these things overnight. In 1975 we designed a series of flexibility studies to improve our reaction time and enhance the alliance. We came up with about 900 findings and they served as a basis for our program...
...later, he prefers not to discuss his role in the 1968 classic or the twists and turns of his life since then. One can only guess at the former quarterback's reasons for refusing comment. But to surmise that Champi simply wants to avoid a recurrence of the media blitz that marked his one-day stardom in The '68 Game would probably not be far off the mark...
...exceeds 150 days. For lack of models, the company has been virtually shut out of the full-size car market, which now constitutes 29% of industry sales. And when the company introduced its new full-size 1979 Chrysler New Yorker and Dodge St. Regis models with a vigorous publicity blitz in early October, it had almost no cars to sell because of production problems. Chrysler's only real winners this year are its front-wheel-drive Omni and Horizon...
...religious edifices, and the fifth largest in the world.* Its vaulting (175 ft. high under the tower) is higher than any other, its length (619 ft.) second only to St. Peter's in Rome. Work on the cathedral continued through two world wars and a depression. During the blitz of 1940, King George VI came to Liverpool and told church officials: "Keep on with the work, if only in a small way. Refuse to be beaten." Work continued even after bombs damaged the walls and blew out several windows of the completed Lady Chapel. The pounds of merchant benefactors...
...sometimes frighteningly intense personal music that dances right around the edges of Dylan's long shadow. Young, a firm Dylan loyalist, also has a new record out, Comes a Time, and last week he completed his most extensive tour in years. Dylan continues on a three-month barnstorming blitz, playing St. Paul in his home territory of Minnesota this week. Earlier both converged on New York City at the same time. Young played to wildly partisan crowds, while Dylan kept his audience at arm's length and flummoxed even the aficionados. The inevitable result of this near collision...