Word: blitzkrieg
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...feeble old Wallace H. White Jr., was on Vandenberg's side. Arrayed against him were the G.O.P. whip, Nebraska's Kenneth Wherry; Minnesota's Joe Ball, once a red-hot internationalist who now decried efforts to rush the aid bill through as "a combination of blitzkrieg and the old mousetrap play"; and, most important of all, Bob Taft...
Eisenhower's report was written long before his critics-notably Lieut. Colonel Ralph (Top Secret) Ingersoll-began to attack him as a cautious, "political" general. But by inference, he dismisses attacks on his caution, declaring simply that to continue General Patton's armored blitzkrieg across the Rhine before Christmas was impossible. Not only had he outrun his supplies, but there were too many Germans in too good positions on the west bank...
...next few weeks 6,000 huskies, sent out by lumber companies and forestry services, will take to the woods, armed for total war. The enemy: white pine blister rust, an incurable fungus infection that is spreading like a blitzkrieg...
...days & nights to warn her of one. Catherine, more impressed by his bright pink condition at the end of the ride than by his loyalty, rigs him out in an ice-cream uniform, promotes him through the military ceiling, moistens him thoroughly with champagne, subjects him to a dazzling blitzkrieg of carnivorous kisses, and turns him into a hopelessly bemused boudoir-poodle. His jealous fiancee (Anne Baxter), some further conspiracies and, ultimately, his own self-respect, bring the young man to his senses, and force the man-eating monarch to start her routine all over, this time on the French...
Elizabeth Reynard, Dean Gildersleeve and the advisory council spearheaded a campus blitzkrieg. For their key officers they were frankly looking for the best products of the colleges. "We had to," Miss Reynard explains. "We had to have the best to set the tone." That selectivity, they are convinced, was another factor in the success of the WAVES...