Word: blitzkrieg
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Instead of the expected Blitzkrieg knockout, Louis shuffled as if his mind was on his Christmas shopping. He landed a few good punches, but for every one he landed, he missed two. When the bell rang for the sixth round, McCoy, for no good reason except that his left eye was swollen shut, remained in his corner...
With the beginning of the Blitzkrieg, U. S. opinion on its part in World War I began to change. Many a circumstance, many a circumstantial report did much to remind U. S. citizens that the cause fought for 23 years ago was strikingly similar to the cause being fought for in Europe today. Many have come to believe that the U. S. mistake was made, not in winning the war, but in losing the peace...
...winter it was Britain who slept. Therefore we ask soberly now what is this year's winterset? . . . The Boche are working late this winter. In the shrouded factories in far Bohemia, the new centre of German arms production, there are being forged weapons of another spring's Blitzkrieg .... The entire economic effort of at least 120,000,000 in the heart of Europe is directed into the channels of the Nazi war industry. German loot has been on a gigantic scale. . . . The Nazis are exerting 30% more energy than Britain on their war output...
Referring to specific countries. Davis maintained that Great, Britain has "forced changes in individual diets, but not radical ones." This has been done "through regulation of imports, controlled distribution of home-grown and individual supplies, and rationing." He supports the contention that the British Isles are facing the Blitzkrieg with ample supplies of food and necessary materials...
...afterwards the explanation of how they occurred gradually leaks out to the outside world. The first surprise of World War II was the German conquest of Poland in 27 days-explained by the inferior Polish materiel and the rashness of the High Command and the German development of Blitzkrieg tactics with tanks and planes. The second was the swift German conquest of Norway-explained by fifth-column activity and the elaborately daring German plan of invasion. The third was the German sweep through the Low Countries and France, an elaboration of Blitzkrieg tactics with Panzer divisions, planes, parachute troops, deception...