In Europe, Fukushima prompted a media blitz of gloom and doom over nuclear energy.

Before the advent of digital clocks, five minutes per side was the standard for blitz or speed chess.

In 1941, during the Second World War, the building was destroyed by an incendiary bomb in the London Blitz.

In December 1974, Cine Blitz magazine was launched with Zeenat Aman on its cover, a testimony to her popularity at the time.

Britain had learned this after the Coventry Blitz, when loss of this crucial infrastructure had longer lasting effects than attacks on war plants.

Perhaps worried that Bo s defiant behavior was winning the public relations battle, the official media also launched a media blitz savaging Bo s character and all but pronouncing him guilty.

The Rotterdam Blitz was the aerial bombardment of Rotterdam by the Luftwaffe (German air force) on 14 May 1940, during the German invasion of the Netherlands in World War II.

Liverpool Museums Coventry Blitz 376th HBG Veterans Oral History Project at Ball State University Allied Bombers and Crews slideshow by Life magazine Bombing Annotated bibliography for conventional bombing during World War II from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues

Whenever the top leadership in Beijing uttered such slogans, they became the rallying cry of the bureaucracy. The party s massive propaganda machine went into overdrive and blanketed the country with a publicity blitz that would make the most extravagant Madison Avenue advertising campaign look like child s play.