Word: blitzkrieg
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...Roosevelt observed that this latest Blitzkrieg should make the U. S. people think seriously about the potentialities of World War II. Thanks to his and Secretary Hull's slightly awry foresight, the President had only to reach into the files, pull out and brush up proclamations and orders already prepared to orient the U. S. to World War II's greater scope. As though by rote, Roosevelt & Hull...
Hitler may see his blitzkrieg invasion of Denmark and Norway turn into a boomerang according to Rupert Emerson '21, associate professor of Government, who like most of the members of the Faculty, yesterday was noncommittal about the rapid succession of events in Scandinavia...
...area. Meantime, Army bombers and defensive planes were helpless on the ground, unable to take off because they would have had to land in the fog. George Marshall returned to Washington with furrowed brow, wondering whether the Canal Zone might, after all, be the locale for a Blitzkrieg in the Western Hemisphere...
GREAT BRITAIN Blitzkrieg or Sitzkrieg...
...also owns the professional football-playing Chicago Bears), and the Harlem Globetrotters, owned by Chicago's Abe Saperstein ("the Mike Jacobs of Negro sports"), put on the best show of the week. With only five minutes to play, the Bruins were leading 29-to-21. Then, with a blitzkrieg of crazy passing and shooting, the dipsy-doo Globetrotters bombarded the baskets, won the game (31-to-29), the title and $1,800 first-prize money...