Word: blitzing
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...week ago." began tall, young Duncan Sandys (rhymes with ampersands), facing a packed press conference in London. Lieut. Colonel Sandys -also M.P. and husband of Churchill's daughter Diana-who has been in charge of Britain's defense against buzzbombs, then gave the facts of the robot blitz, now ended...
...Among London's hard hit districts (Croydon, Woolwich, Greenwich, Orpington, Wandsworth, Lewisham, Beckenham, West Ham, Camberwell and Lambeth) Croydon got it worst. Only 211 of its citizens were killed but 75% of its houses were damaged or destroyed (Coventry's percentage in the 1940 blitz...
...worst seven days of the robomb terror. Statisticians totted up averages: each day 108 one-ton robombs were mauling southern England (which meant mostly London), each day they destroyed or damaged 17,000 houses. Only half as many civilians (2,441 a month) were being killed as in the blitz's bloodiest days, but the proportion of seriously injured stood higher. At week's end the capital had a 30-hour respite, broken when a fresh wave of robombs buzzed from new directions...
...while up north titanic battles raged. Last week, as Rumania broke with the Axis, the hour, timed with exquisite nicety by the Russians, struck in thunder. From the Carpathians to the Black Sea, the Russians burst forward in their most spectacular and possibly most decisive molnia (Russian version of blitz) of World...
...last week, while delirious Frenchmen danced and kissed, Germans stared stolidly into blackness and even Britons wondered. For as the war's fifth birthday came round, the British, like the Germans, were tired. Buzz-bombs were worse than the blitz. And Britons worried over the look of the world to come. For Poland, even victory would mean a national tragedy. For France, it was a vast questionmark. Ever since the blitz failed the British had known that victory would one day be theirs, as the Germans after Stalingrad and North Africa had glimpsed the spectre of defeat. And they...