Word: blitzing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back in January 1943, when German planes attacked London for the first time in 14 months, Londoners who had gone through the Great Blitz of 1940-41 were startled less by the raid itself than by the vast, thundering, metal-showering ack-ack barrage thrown up against the raiders...
...American, driving a famed British scientist homeward through the London blackout, asked about the quality of bombs the Germans are using in their renewed "little blitz...
Last week the "little blitz" on England waned-at least temporarily. In one raid two Nazi planes were shot down, in another five of an estimated 100 (only a half dozen reached London). This brought to about 75 German losses in a fortnight-some 7% of the attacking forces. Damage and casualties were still closely guarded secrets, but Home Secretary Herbert Morrison let slip that one of the "episodes" (presumably the previous week) had been "as bad as the worst single incident" of the 1940-41 blitz...
Whether the Germans intended the little blitz as a strategic move, propaganda to bolster the Reich home front, or as a demonstration that there are still anti-invasion bombers, London was again becoming blitz-minded. Dinner guests took along their helmets, began to refer to the 1940-41 bombings as "the last...
...newest raids were by no means mere propaganda demonstrations by the enemy. Four nights last week German planes struck hard at London, and though the raids were only about half as heavy as the main attacks of the Great Blitz, they added up to quite a respectable Little Blitz...