Word: blitzkrieg
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...preliminaries weren't wild enough, Acts II and III, after the faceoff, were even more bizarre. Harvard won the opener, a seven-minute blitzkrieg, 4-0. Cornell won the finale, a 53-minute melodrama...
...unsentimental dynamism, could be his biggest. It has sold more than 1 million copies, fielded one hit single and two excellent Bowie videos that are holding down heavy air space on MTV. The album and its gold-record title track are also buttressing Bowie's current tour, a blitzkrieg that has sold out stadiums all over Europe; in Gothenburg, Sweden, Edinburgh and Paris, he beat last year's Rolling Stones' attendance records. For a charity concert in London, scalpers got $150 a seat...
...holocaust. It suggests that a buildup of conventional forces is a credible alternative because it would provide NATO commanders with a greater range of options for checking a Soviet advance, thus making the use of nuclear weapons less likely. To repel the first invasion forces in a Warsaw Pact blitzkrieg across Central Europe, the committee of strategists urged NATO to acquire more sophisticated ground-and air-launched conventional missile systems that could be targeted at Soviet bloc artillery. The alliance should also develop new surveillance technology that would greatly decrease the chance of a surprise attack. It should then...
...Tigers play a disciplined offense, so for McLaughlin's crew to pull off an upset. Harvard (9-8 overall, 2-4 in Ivy play) will have to keep the game moving. No such problems will bother the cagers Saturday, as the Quakers like to blitzkrieg their opponents...
...days before the Germans storm into Poland, Natalie insists on visiting her fiance Leslie Slote (David Dukes), an American Foreign Service officer stationed in Warsaw, and she drags the love-smitten Byron along with her. Through this credibility-straining contrivance, Wouk brings within his action the German blitzkrieg and the bombing of Warsaw. Later, after Natalie marries Byron, she is trapped in Europe with her uncle; as Jews, both are in grave danger of disappearing into Hitler's Holocaust. The persecution of the Jews is one of the dominating concerns of both the series and its author...