Word: blitzkrieged
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...against Pete McCloskey is scheduled to go to trial. Robertson is suing McCloskey for claiming that he sought help from his father Senator A. Willis Robertson to avoid combat duty in Korea. A review of evidence collected by McCloskey's lawyers reveals that Robertson may be in for a blitzkrieg of bad publicity. Several fellow Marine officers corroborate McCloskey's claim, and a letter from Robertson's father to Marine General Lemuel Shepherd expresses his pleasure that Pat "will get more training before engaging in combat duty in Korea." If the suit is settled before trial, Robertson may have...
...primal hero of German history, Arminius was a great Nazi favorite, but here Kiefer conflates him with awkward portraits of all manner of later German "descendants" like Blucher, who fought against Napoleon; Schlieffen, whose strategy for the westward conquest of Europe was the basis of Hitler's blitzkrieg; writers from Klopstock to Rilke, and so on. Lines signifying affiliation, as in a family tree (a whole family forest, in fact, this Teutoburg), ramble slackly between some of the characters. Pictorially, the result is a shambles, and one needs an instruction manual to decipher...
Cleary's troops resorted to blitzkrieg tactics and scored six first-period goals to defeat the visitors from West Point, 6-2, Saturday night in front of 2,120 spectators at Bright Center...
...step-by-step approach, letting neither conservatives or radicals know what changes lie ahead; and "blitzkrieg" tactics to get individual reforms through. "The proposed reform is drafted in relative secrecy; ....and then, at the appropriate moment, it is dramatically unveiled...and the reform enacted quickly before its opponents can effectively mobilize...
...back home, he says, is more of the same -- the beginning of the same. Everyone in Hope and Glory may be English middle class, but Boorman sees to it that war soon turns the instincts feral. In the rubble of a blitzkrieg, children forage for ghastly souvenirs, and adults renounce a lifetime of propriety for some guilty, convulsive sex. But this is not a horror story, though there are horrors for the Rohans to endure. And though their ordeal was unusual, Boorman makes it close to universal. Every family lives in a war zone of its own circumstances and compromises...