Word: blitzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During the "little blitz" early this year, the Germans cut loose with one characteristically short, severe raid on London's West End, landed a heavy bomb squarely in the street at the western end of Pall Mall, with a shower of explosives and incendiaries on nearby buildings...
Visitors to their latest (28th) show, at American Fine Arts Society Galleries, were stunned by a blitz of colors, jostled by a rag-tag army of sculpture. Female nudes hung cheek by jowl with Biblical allegories, surrealistic enigmas, affectionate rural landscapes. There were sculptured paintings, painted sculpture. Exhibits were price-marked from $5 to $10,000. At week's end there had been seven sales...
This is William White, who covered the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, the landing at Oran and the North African campaign, was with our troops when they went into actionat Medjez-el-Bab, Gafsa, El Guettar, Fondouk...
...years the $462,000,000 International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. helplessly watched the Axis overrun one of its properties after another, from France to Shanghai, watched its earnings nose-dive with each new blitz. But last week hawk-nosed, Virgin Island-born I. T. & T. President Sosthenes Behn released an annual report for 1943 which showed that the war is finally working for, instead of against, his globe-girdling behemoth...
...publish it until 1915. In 1912 she married brisk Editor Leonard Woolf, with whom she published books that the London Times described as "having a political trend to the Left." Several times in her life she had had intimations of insanity. During the blitz she was twice bombed out of her house, and moved to Monks House, a long, low, green frame dwelling surrounded by gardens, in Sussex. On March 28, 1941, she wrote a note to Vanessa and one to her husband, took her stick and walked across the Downs to the River Ouse. Later her hat and stick...