Word: blitzkrieg
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...Battle. German Intelligence had also studied PU-36. Reconnaissance had looked over the Smolensk area. In posthumous tribute to Marshal Tukhachevsky, the German commander in this area, Field Marshal Fedor von Bock, decided to abandon the fundamental pattern of Blitzkrieg -cutting as if with a knife through one strategic spot (as at Sedan) and then encircling. Instead he dug in, as if with a gigantic fork, sending five parallel prongs into the defense area. Each pair of prongs had to reduce island after island between them...
...Blitzkrieg. As Franklin Roosevelt this week boarded the Presidential yacht Potomac for a cruise, he had no more to say about the tax bill. He left it in the trembling hands of Congress...
After a seven-year siege, the C.I.O. Newspaper Guild last week stormed the defenses of the New York Times, captured the right to bargain for 587 employes of the editorial and news departments. Its victory was no Blitzkrieg either in speed or in decisiveness. In a tense Labor Board election the Guild licked the A.F. of L. American Newspaper Writers Association (editorial employes only...
...Blitzkrieg is a washout." So boasted Foreign Vice Commissar Solomon A. Lozovsky, Russia's rambunctious spokesman...
Many a public health authority thought that Dr. Bundesen's Blitzkrieg of publicity might stamp out Chicago syphilis by 1945. Besides wholesale blood-testing, Dr. Bundesen plans to hound every person who has a venereal disease into hospitals. He also threatened to tack up red quarantine posters on houses of prostitution where the inmates resist treatment. Every person who crosses the threshold of such a quarantined house will be liable to a fine of $200 and six months in jail...