Word: blitzkrieging
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Fifteen thousand fans had paid over $60,000 to see Henry Armstrong because he had once been a pugilistic blitzkrieg. The flat-faced little boxer was the only fighter ever to hold three titles simultaneously-feather, light and welterweight. For five years it was a near certainty that chocolate-colored Henry Armstrong's opponents would eventually crumble before the inhuman, tireless onslaught of will and pounding fists. Last week at Madison Square Garden, the Armstrong repertory of lethal motions was on display, but the crucial Armstrong hammer was no longer part of the equipment. If it had not been...
...reporters and two researchers on the move for you. Two of these writers are Reg Ingraham and Jim Shepley, who work out of Washington-another is John Walker, who saw the German invasion of Poland and was one of the first U.S. journalists to learn first-hand what a blitzkrieg means-another is James McConaughy Jr., just back from a swing around the Army camps in the Southwest-still another is Robert Sherrod, who spent six months last year with General MacArthur's men in Australia and New Guinea. But the most important member of this team is TIME...
...base at Paramoshiri only 750 miles beyond the westernmost U.S. outpost, signs of nervousness began to appear in Tokyo. Blustered the Jap, in an official broadcast: "If in the future Russia ever puts her Siberian bases at the disposal of the U.S., the Japanese Army will resort to a blitzkrieg that will deal upon her the heaviest blows Russia has ever known...
...would like to present for your consideration as TIME'S Man of the Year . . . the one-man Blitzkrieg of Yugoslavia, General Draja Mihailovich...
...occupation of French North Africa had been accomplished with Blitzkrieg briefness, utilizing expert coordination of planes, ships, tanks, trucks, guns and courageous men. In spots it was easy. In others resistance was bitter, though brief...