Word: blitzkrieg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Intervention in Europe to prevent Hitler from directing his next blitzkrieg at the United States has a 'certain fascination for the man on the street," McKay attacked "this bogey of invasion" both from at technical and a political point of view and questioned whether "any one state will find itself sufficiently footloose to wage war in the Western hemisphere...
...Whiteside, Kaufman & Hart hilariously held the mirror up to ill-nature. Crusty, crotchety, mischiefmaking, selfish, their renowned invalid badgers all comers in epigrammatic Billingsgate. Every combat, to him, is a Blitzkrieg. Now & then, as on Christmas Eve, his gushing soul drips treacle; but the real Whiteside, from his wheelchair throne, commandeers the house, forbids his hosts to use the telephone, tries to smash his secretary's love affair, bewitches the servants, bedevils his nurse. Snaps he to "Miss Bedpan": "My great-aunt Jennifer . . . lived to be 102 and when she was three days dead she looked better than...
Barring the possibility of a soggy field which would give mudder Bill Hutchinson just the chance he is looking for, Coach Blaik has no real blitzkrieg for Stadium spectators tomorrow. He has no single back on whom he can depend to provide the lightning thrust; no one on whom the Green can afford to stake a long afternoon of build-up plays on the chance that he may break loose on THE play and win the game...
...Blitzkrieg, 72-hour shock, or heartbreaking drawn-out death struggle, who would...
Observers could explain the Administration's legislative Blitzkrieg only thus: 1) the U. S. public found out at once that both sides wanted the same thing-i. e., that the U. S. stay out of war-and were arguing only over one minor, technical phase of the method; 2) the real debate had already been exhaustively aired for six weeks by almost every leading figure in all walks of life on the radio and in the press, leaving nothing for Congress but second-rate oratory on a second-hand subject.* Congressional mail dropped from its alltime high...