Word: blitzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...English people are tired," said McIlwain. "They thought the Germans had finished harassing the civilian population, and the recent robot bombing was a serious psychological blow. But they're taking it just as they took the blitz...
Most Londoners knew that the Things were worse on nerves than the blitz at its worst. It was not so much that the Things killed, maimed, destroyed, disrupted. As they had before, they did all that in one awful peak of 14 consecutive hours one day last week. London could take all that again...
Bumped Heads. By night, the London householder was governed by the menace. Thousands went to the deep public shelters. In thousands of backyards the Anderson shelter, neglected since the bad days of the blitz, had been patched up, its water-soaked earthen floor resurfaced...
...noticeable, not yet serious, but there was increasing absence from factories and offices. No one was surprised at Winston Churchill's recital of casualties: 4,735 killed, 14,000 seriously hurt, 17,000 dwellings razed in the first six weeks of flying bombs. (Worst six weeks of the blitz, 10,122 killed, 14,969 seriously injured...
...wonder insecticide (TIME, June 12), was last week credited with the most crushing blitz of its career...