Word: blitzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throaty roar, then a sudden silence when the jet motor stopped and the bomb dived; then the blast. It kept thousands of Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained apprehension which the Great Blitz never matched. As inaccurate as it was impersonal, it was a weapon precisely designed for sprawling London, precisely calculated to raise havoc with civilian life...
Addressing the House of Commons on the robot problem, Home Security Minister Herbert S. Morrison took a cautious line. He admitted that public utilities had been damaged, but only "slightly," and said that civilian casualties were running lower than in the "little blitz" of last February...
...other hand, it was noted that more people were seeking nightly shelter in the subways than at any time since the great blitz of 1940-41. And Minister Morrison warned that the robot barrage might not yet have reached its peak...
...Enemy Standard. German propagandists, hating and fearing Harris and Spaatz, called them the "aerial bandits." But the Germans themselves had established the first bombing standards for World War II. In the celebrated blitz of 1940-41, German planes attacked Britain with an average of 200 tons of bombs a night for about 100 nights. The "measuring stick" raid on Coventry saw about 275 tons fall in seven hours...
Radio Tokyo announced that many Government offices are being transferred to the prefectures (provinces). Apparent object: to forestall the paralysis that might come with an air blitz on the capital...