Word: blitzing
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...advance through Moscow's terrain of swamps, forests, rivers, and especially of forts-in-depth could not possibly be a Blitz advance. It was a slow, painful, scrabbling process...
...Blitz on Bauxite. In eight years, the President had taught Adolf Hitler nothing; but he had learned plenty from the Führer. The U.S. occupation of Dutch Guiana was as quick, cool, and as foresighted a step of getting to a vulnerable spot before the enemy seized it as Hitler himself could have planned. But unlike Hitler's aggressions it was made with the full consent of the other parties concerned: Brazil, the British, The Netherlands Government. The White House is sued a brief statement: The bauxite mines in Surinam furnish about 60% of the metal vital...
Within the next forty-eight hours the outcome of the war in Libya will be decided and written off as history. But right now administration officials in both London and Washington are viewing the situation with mingled optimism and alarm. Ever since the British blitz started a week ago the pace has been fast and the stakes high. In spite of the rapid advances made by the British victory is by no means assured. Although the British had the advantage of a surprise attack, many competent authorities fear that the military hand of General Auchinleck may have been prematurely forced...
...questioning mind. In Russia, "the Orthodox Church, the Jewish synagogue, the Mohammedan mosque, the sectarian meetinghouse, have been involved in a common ruin." In Germany the extremist persecutors of the church troop back to the primeval forest to revive the fervors of Wotan worship and inspire pagan Siegfrieds to blitz the Fafnirs of "pluto-democracy." History, the record of the race, has been perverted to glorify the party, the leader, or serve the changeable politics of the total state...
...that they would, certainly be able to finish "with the Soviet Union in a month and a half to two months and succeed in this short period of time in reaching the Urals. It is not necessary to add that the Germans did not conceal this plan for a blitz victory. Quite the contrary. They advertised it in every way. The facts, however, now show how this plan was wrong. Now this crazy plan must be considered a complete failure...