Blitzed
Yet as Norman Ohler reveals in this gripping work of World War II nonfiction, the Third Reich was saturated with drugs: cocaine, opiates, and, most of all, methamphetamines, which were consumed by everyone from factory workers to housewives ...
Rebuilding Britain's Blitzed Cities
... blitzed cities were one of the lowest priorities under both postwar governments. Yet until Harold Macmillan's appointment as minister there seems to have been general acceptance among local authorities and most planning ministry ...
'Blitzed'
... Blitzed ' is precisely about what we were when the Battle of France finally ceased on 18th June 1940 ; blitzed but not beaten , more surprised by the professionalism of the German forces than in our inability to stop them ; but having ...
We the Blitzed
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Bristol Blitzed
... blitzed Coliseum near the camera , see plate 117 : Wood- land Road , left ; the blitzed Princes The- atre , right , see plate 94 ; the Hatchet Inn , distant , top right . ( 191 ) c . 1943-1945 : UNI- VERSITY ROAD from the University ...
Replanning the Blitzed City Centre
... blitzed areas of the city outside Area No. 1. As she told the council : It was time they knew where they were going in the other ' blitzed ' areas of the city as well as in the centre . This was especially the case as people in those ...
American Slang
... blitzed the Mariners 12-zip 2 v 1960s football To rush the quarterback in force, hoping to prevent him from completing a pass 3 n 1940s Any- heavy onslaught or attack: His best strategy was a blitz of TV spots just before the election 4 ...
Annual Meeting
... BLITZED AREAS The Association's Blitzed Areas Committee has not met during the year as reconstruction in bombed cities has depended so much upon the Government's policy in relation to capital expenditure . In 1953 , the Government aim ...
B.I.O.S. Final Report
... Blitzed . Blitzed . Blitzed . Blitzed . Blitzed Blitzed . Blitzed . Abt.18 Considerable 200 3-400 large say 500 tons tons tons stone bottles Blitzed . None Offices Laboratories Rail Water Road Map ref . Estimated men regd . to work ...
Dictionary of American Slang
... blitzed (also blitzed out) adj 1 Drunk : Where are they going to find room in overcrowded jails for a blitzed driver?/ We were pretty blitzed out by the time Lee walked in (1960s+ College students) 2 Completely exhausted; WIPED OUT ...
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).
... blitzed , for they are usually on the perimeter of a town ; it was the houses in the centre of the town which were damaged and destroyed . We lost nearly 5,000 houses , and we lost their rateable value , just as we lost the rateable ...
Parliamentary Debates
... blitzed , for they are usually on the perimeter of a town ; it was the houses in the centre of the town which were damaged and destroyed . We lost nearly 5,000 houses , and we lost their rateable value , just as we lost the rateable ...
Southern History
... blitzed cities . Comparisons with other cities are difficult because there was no blitzed city truly like Exeter . Exeter's primary revenues before the war came from both tourism and its position as a shopping hub in the southwest.45 ...
Random House Historical Dictionary of American Slang: A-G
Dictionary of American slang, covering all eras of American history with accurate definitions and extensive, dated citations.
Accountancy
... blitzed , blighted and others . Normally the local authority , having acquired the freehold , will re - plan and let the sites to private developers on leasehold tenure , though local authorities are given power to develop them- selves ...
Yank
... blitzed capital of Britain . By Sgt . FRANCIS BURKE YANK Staff Correspondent ONDON - Sidewalk superintendents are a uni- breed , the GIs who are helping versal rebuild some of the blitzed - out sections of London have found . Some 3,000 ...
An Introduction to Planning with Reference to the Town and Country Planning Act, 1947
... blitzed " areas ) , areas of bad layout and obsolete development ( " blighted " areas ) and areas to accommodate industry and population from both these types ( “ over- spill " areas ) . For a period of five years a simpler method of ...
Annual Bulletin
... blitzed and non - blitzed herds were similar . Over the three years of the experiment neither the blitz treatment nor the different hygiene treatments resulted in significant differences in the reduction of disease or rates of new ...