Word: blitzkrieg
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...Israeli armed forces may hardly notice the change. Friends since childhood days in Yugoslavia, Bar-Lev and Elazar confounded the Egyptians during the 1948 war by talking over their field radios in Serbo-Croatian. Bar-Lev, a tank man, refined the Israeli army's blitzkrieg tactics as chief of the armored corps between 1957 and 1961. That task was continued by his successor in the post, Elazar, who later led the attack on the Golan Heights during...
...four-week, $150,000 pro-SST blitzkrieg is mainly the work of an ad hoc National Committee for an American SST, supported by the aerospace industry and some 30 labor unions. It has placed full-page ads in leading newspapers. One pictures a boy holding a model of the SST and asks: "Will SSTs really pollute his world?" The answer, claims the ad, is that one SST moving at 1,780 m.p.h. "will emit no more pollutants per mile than three compact automobiles traveling at 60 m.p.h." As for sonic boom, the craft will be banned over land...
...autumn of 1942, Guy Sajer, 16, the French-speaking son of a German mother, cockily double-timed into Russia to help recharge the Third Reich's blitzkrieg on the steppes. Less than two years later he staggered out half alive with the remnant of the once-elite Gross Deutschland Division. Even in this debacle he has found-25 years later-an eminence to lay claim to. He is an elitist in surviving hardships...
...elected, a civil war of sorts is being waged in Chile-but it is among Allende's own advisers. North American businessmen, who have invested as much as $1 billion in Chile, have dubbed the conflict a war between the Machiavellians and the Gradualists. The Machiavellians want a blitzkrieg nationalization of foreign economic interests; the Gradualists also want nationalization, but only a step at a time...
...example, Adolf Hitler sent his Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Moscow. As Stalin stood smiling in the background in a library in the Kremlin, Ribbentrop signed a nonaggression pact that facilitated the Russians' invasion of Finland and the annexation of the Baltic states and the Nazis' blitzkrieg against Poland that started World...