Word: blitzkrieg
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...Blitzkrieg Nominated Willkie...
...utility companies organized a terrific telegraphic barrage for Willkie," he recalls. "The one thing that put him in was this blitzkrieg which made it seem as if he had the public in back of him." Although his 1940 campaign was conservative, Robertson emphasizes, the Republican leader underwent a change toward liberalism in the four years that followed. "He became more educated," Robertson claims, "and his unsuccessful Wisconsin campaign was decent and honest...
Those were the timesaving, small-scale battles that held the breakthrough from becoming a Blitzkrieg in the 1940 sense. Some of them might have a proud place in the annals of World War II-historians might say that here or there Rundstedt's drive had been fatally slowed...
...central bulge where the Germans had succeeded in something like a Blitzkrieg, the damage could not be minimized; nor could U.S. losses in men and materiel. There the Germans had surged past U.S. garrisons (as at Wiltz and Bastogne), destroying or cutting off large units. In the Bastogne and Arlon areas the surge had cut the wide cement road and the Liège-Metz railroad over which U.S. supplies had moved. In the Saint-Hubert area the Germans were in range of other lateral arteries...
Winston Churchill, Man of 1940, had also been a symbol. In Britain's darkest and finest hour, his flaming words and dauntless courage had heartened his country to stand alone against Hitler at the crest of his Blitzkrieg power. As one of the organizers of victory, Churchill had been magnificent. Now in the last weeks of 1944, he was facing-with his usual truculence-the heaviest criticism of his World War II career; his critics charged him with responsibility for the civil war in Greece and for selling out Poland to Russia...