Word: blitzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fall of France to the invasion of Russia, they bore the burden of the struggle alone. After Dunkirk, with only one division of troops equipped to put up organized resistance to invasion of the British Isles, they fought on. They continued to fight on, bloody but unbowed, throughout the blitz. Hitler called them "military idiots...
...Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, 60, Bavarian brewer's son, longtime Luftwaffe commander, who helped stage the aerial massacre of Rotterdam and blitz on Britain...
...Again on May 10, 1940, when the Germans burst into the Low Countries (people strewed flowers before the British troops advancing into Belgium; three weeks later came Dunkirk; six weeks later, the fall of France; four months later, the blitz of London...
...Ernie Pyle, talking to a fellow newsman three months ago. Like many correspondents, and more than most, he had certainly used up chances. He had covered London in the blitz, slugged across North Africa, landed with the troops in Sicily. He had been bombed, slightly wounded and awarded the Purple Heart at Anzio. He had gone into Normandy on D + 1 and later watched in horror as Lieut. General Lesley J. McNair and other Americans were killed by their own planes at Saint...
...York University's Medical School, had a private Manhattan practice on the side. Resoundingly successful in her profession, she has met less success at the poker table and was baffled in the case of Bridget, a ten-year-old Briton whom she took in during the blitz. Bridget, though a nice child, proved many child-care textbook theories wrong, taught the child expert a good deal about children...