Word: blitzed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Iraq's initial blitz had clearly failed to produce anything like the swift and easy victory that Baghdad may have anticipated. Iraq evidently miscalculated Iran's military resilience. After an initial withdrawal in the face of the Iraqis' surprise invasion along a 500-mile front, Iran rebounded with a vengeance. Iraqi claims about the capture of four cities inside Iran's oil-rich Khuzistan province in the first week of fighting proved to be embarrassingly premature. While Iranian main forces, an amalgam of Islamic Revolutionary Guards, border guards and army troops, took on the Iraqi regulars...
...Reagan, he sought to exploit Carter's absence from the League of Women Voters' debate by launching an ad blitz on Sunday and Monday. The setting was an empty podium. A woman's voice said: "Maybe he won't debate because he knows the real question is, 'Can we afford four more years of this...
...friends, in an attempt to convince New Yorkers that her experience as New York City's commissioner of consumer affairs from 1969 to 1974 qualified her for the Senate. But Holtzman raised $1.2 million, mostly from small contributions from 35,000 people, and staged a last-minute TV blitz of her own (built around her campaign theme: "You know what she's done in the House; think what she could do in the Senate"). She also put together an organization of 5,000 volunteers...
...year Rostker promises a new "media blitz" to pump up the permanent registration program he will launch in Januray. "Things have gone smoothly: we have come in at below our cost estimate (about $2 per person). We are certainly better prepared militarily," concludes Rostker...
...lack of money rules out the media blitz Anderson once hoped to mount. Garth admits that the campaign will depend heavily on the enthusiasm of college students willing to ring doorbells for Anderson. Says Garth: "If they don't want to do it, then we are in big trouble...