It reminds me of an uncle of mine who said the London blitz was irritating.
That fall, soon after the German blitz on London began, Kennedy headed back to the U.S.
I collected bits of them, but my blitz was safely vicarious.
In one ad blitz, former employees at a closed steel mill call Romney and Bain job destroyers and economic vampires.
The blitz begins Monday at 11 p.m. EST with J. Cole in Queens.
Remember how we used to mix it with them Jerry bandits tryin' to blitz London?
No transport could get nearer than where the blitz is lying, four miles out.'
blitz—for blitz it was—whined his receipt for the red token, backed from the aperture, and padded away like the wind.
His news was that the blitz's steam-cutter had come in on the morning tide, and he had met von Brning when marketing at the inn.
The hull of the blitz loomed up, and a minute later our kedge was splashing overboard and the launch was backing alongside.
"sudden overwhelming attack," 1940, shortening of blitzkrieg (1939). The use in U.S. football is from 1959. As a verb, 1940, from the noun. Related: Blitzed; blitzing.
verb
To polish one's brass buttons, etc; prepare for inspection
[WWII armed forces; fr Blitz Cloth, trademark for a brand of metal-polishing cloth]
noun
verb
[fr German Blitzkrieg, ''lightning war,'' an overwhelmingly heavy and rapid attack, using tanks and other armor, bombers, etc]
