Word: blitzing
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...thought of myself as beautiful. Millions of women in England look like me." By the time World War II broke out, Kay, at 13, had already crammed in six years of ballet lessons, spent the war years playing in musical comedies all over the British Isles. "I was a blitz baby, myself. I lived on rations when I was growing up. The majority of English girls haven't bosoms. I always wanted them and I'm jealous of people who have...
Furrows in Murrow. As a performer, Murrow has expert technique. During the blitz, when he served as Britain's Boswell, his "This [pause] is London" carried the thrill of Britain's finest hour across the Atlantic. His timing can make silence more eloquent than words. Between his ominous tone and his spare, understated writing springs a tension suggesting that, as one listener put it, "he knows the worst but will try not to mention...
...hours of talk by Murrow and Friendly. Friendly then briefs the staff, sometimes in a jointly signed memo. After years with See It Now, the staff has soaked up the kind of perceptiveness for human and atmospheric detail that Murrow showed in wartime London when he dramatized the blitz with such tellingly simple touches as the sound of unhurried footsteps, caught by his microphone on the sidewalk as Londoners walked calmly to their air raid shelters...
...Coventry, famed for Lady Godiva and the World War II blitz, that put the British polio picture in focus. With 87 cases in a population of 267,000, it was not the worst-hit city - Maidstone (pop. 55,000) had at least as many cases, and Lincoln (pop. 70,000) had 83. But Coventry's plight was clearest on the record. In July, with 54 cases logged, Coventry had received only enough vaccine to inoculate half the 14,000 top-priority children (aged three to nine) who had registered for shots. The Ministry of Health refused more vaccine. Reason...
Hitler's blitz of 1940 rained down a hotter kind of fire. All that remained of the church at war's end was the crypt, the shell of the tower and the bare stone walls, all lying not a mile from the still intact magnificence of the much newer (1675-1710) St. Paul's. Planners in charge of the rebuilding of London marked off All Hallows as too far gone for restoration...