Word: blitzkrieg
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Twenty men died making it and government officials all over the world have lost their appetite seeing it, but the Liberal Union nevertheless predicts a full house in the New Lecture Hall for the free showing at 7:30 o'clock tonight of "Blitzkrieg Im Westen...
Filmed by special motion picture photographers in the German army, the movie shows Nazi infantry, tanks, guns and planes smashing all resistance in their blitz conquest of Holland, France, and Belgium. "Blitzkrieg Im Westen" is the sequel to the first spine-chiller, "Baptism of Fire," which came out soon after the invasion of Poland...
LONDON, TUESDAY--The Greek army yesterday "held its ground" against the Greman blitzkrieg along the Bulgarian frontier, although two Greek forts were captured by the Germans, a broadcast army communique said early today...
...Executive Committee: Henry P. Fletcher, Ferric C. Galpin, M. Preston Goodfellow, Herbert Hoover, Richard W. Lawrence, Chauncey Mc-Cormick, Dave Hennen Morris, Maurice Pate, Edgar Rickard, Lewis L. Strauss, W. Hallam Tuck, Allen Wardwell. - Lars Moen, an American chemist who was caught in Belgium by the Blitzkrieg, reported in his recent book Under the Iron Heel (Lippincott; $2.75) that scores of Belgians told him "perhaps the major" share of food sent from the U. S. to Belgium during World War I was diverted to feed the Germans...
...dictionary contains many a recent coinage (e.g., "Blitzkrieg: warfare in which the offensive is extremely rapid, violent, and hard to resist; totalitarian: of or having to do with a government controlled by one political group that permits no other political groups"). But youths found that in some respects their dictionary shortchanges them. Conspicuously missing are such well-rooted youthful words as jitterbug, jive...