Word: blitzing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard got its final five goals of the night in a blitz that took just 8:36. Roth scored his second tally at 9.42 with Northeastern two men down...
...fourteen point scoring blitz in the waning moments of the game lifted Harvard to an 80-77 victory over Columbia Saturday and completed a two-game road sweep. The Crimson handily defeated Cornell 80-67 in Ithaca on Friday night...
When the burger blitz was over, John Bowers, supervisor of the two restaurants, maintained that he would keep on feeding the fans if Indiana kept on holding down the scores. "How often can you be in the same town with the best team in the nation?" he asked. "If they win it all, we're going to do some thing really special." Just what, Bowers had not yet decided. Would you believe a Big Mac, an order of fries and a chocolate shake...
...overriding military necessity of preserving Ultra's secrecy sometimes led to Allied tragedy. On Nov. 14, 1940, for instance, Ultra picked up German bombing orders for a blitz of the cathedral city of Coventry, well before the attack was due. Winterbotham relayed word to Churchill, who then faced a "terrible decision": whether or not to evacuate Coventry and almost certainly give Ultra's secret to the Germans. Churchill's choice doomed a city...
Next Saturday, there will be a "blitz campaign" to blanket the area with information about the teach-in. Several radio stations and one TV station will publicize the upcoming activities...