Word: blitzkriegers
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Down by four, 34-30, the Harvard five apparently assumed they would pick up where they left off, playing deliberately and bogging down Penn's blitzkrieg offense...
...events in Poland, which preoccupied Washington, as a cloak for his action, in much the same way that in 1956 the Hungarian crisis offered Israel a convenient distraction when it joined Britain and France in an attempt to seize the Suez Canal. Indeed, Begin's legislative blitzkrieg came less than a day after Secretary of State Alexander Haig had been forced to cancel a seven-nation tour that included a brief visit to Tel Aviv, in order to attend to the Polish crisis...
...short, the time-honored U.S. declaratory nuclear policy of deterring aggression by threatening to "go nuclear" against a Soviet tank blitzkrieg has lost much of its credibility. Worse, that doctrine has recently risked backfiring: it has frightened the U.S.'s allies and emboldened its adversaries-which is exactly the opposite of what declarations of nuclear policy are supposed...
...fleeing the bloody holdup, the Brink's bandits had literally made tracks. To begin with, there were plenty of witnesses to the blitzkrieg-style heist at Nanuet National Bank, just outside Nyack. There were also witnesses to the police Shootout near by that had led to the capture of Weather Undergrounders Katherine Boudin, 38, David Gilbert, 37, and Judith Clark, 31, as well as Accomplice Samuel Brown, 41, a career criminal. In addition, guns and getaway cars were easily traced to the names of other suspects and to the addresses of their safe houses. The houses, in turn, provided...
...Israeli officers personally leading their troops into battle. His extraordinary courage and enormous stature inevitably made him a lightning rod for Israel's triumphs and tragedies. No Israeli political figure soared to such heights of public esteem as did Dayan in the wake of Israel's blitzkrieg victory in the 1967 Six-Day War-or to such depths of public scorn, as he did after the nearly catastrophic October...