Word: blitzing
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...throaty roar, then a sudden silence when the jet motor stopped and the bomb dived; then the blast. It kept thousands of Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained apprehension which the Great Blitz never matched. As inaccurate as it was impersonal, it was a weapon precisely designed for sprawling London, precisely calculated to raise havoc with civilian life...
...Visible War. In the first four weeks, the robots killed 2,752, injured 8,000. Still, the robot's power to disrupt was greater than its power to kill; the rate of casualties during the worst periods of the 1940-41 blitz was twice as high...
...gives me the willies. Instead of getting used to it, I become less used to it as the years go by. With me it seems to have had a cumulative effect. I am much more afraid of a plane overhead now than I was during the London blitz, or even during our early dive-bombing days in Africa. With those four narrow squeaks at Anzio [where a bomb blew in two walls of a room where he was sleeping] coming after a year and a half of sporadic squeaks, I have begun to feel I have about used...
Addressing the House of Commons on the robot problem, Home Security Minister Herbert S. Morrison took a cautious line. He admitted that public utilities had been damaged, but only "slightly," and said that civilian casualties were running lower than in the "little blitz" of last February...
...other hand, it was noted that more people were seeking nightly shelter in the subways than at any time since the great blitz of 1940-41. And Minister Morrison warned that the robot barrage might not yet have reached its peak...