Word: blitzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Labor legislation was next. To the long list of things to do (e.g., revise the Wagner Act, possibly outlaw the closed shop) party leaders added legislation to head off the economic blitz recently launched by labor lawyers with the portal-to-portal pay drive (see BUSINESS). In the first 48 hours probably a hundred labor bills will be dumped into the hopper...
...many years Huxley was director of the London Zoo, took a lion cub along to one of his Christmas lectures at the Royal Institution. During the blitz he helped corner a zebra that escaped when a bomb scored a direct hit on the Zoo. As a "safety valve" for his scientific work, Huxley writes intellectual doggerel (sample lines: And heavenly matter Is mad as a hatter -Just atoms daemonic, A dance electronic...
...plenty to forget. At 25, in the spring of 1939, he joined the London Bureau of the A.P. That fall he was one of the twelve U.S. correspondents assigned to the British Expeditionary Force. From then on, in England, Africa and Europe-ending with Dunkirk; and later, after the Blitz, returning to the Continent for the New York Times, he saw more of the war than most of his colleagues, rapidly built a reputation for courageous and able reporting. He is now the Times's correspondent in Moscow, but Our Share of Night covers only...
...parents when she wanted to play-act for keeps. Her tribulations as a typist were anesthetized by amateur theatricals; as soon as she saved a little money she fled to London for "the most terrifying six months of my life"-25 shillings a week and job-hunting through the blitz...
...Whistling. World War II gave him his chance. In April, 1942, amid the wreckage of the blitz, he conducted the London Philharmonic to a full house in Royal Albert Hall, to raise funds for Britain's colored allies...