Be warned, son. I'll have to blitz you.

Frankly, I don't think you got the cards to blitz me.

The men on Kheros were doomed unless they could be evacuated before the blitz.

Allied Intelligence learned of the projected blitz only one week before the appointed date.

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.

In Europe, Fukushima prompted a media blitz of gloom and doom over nuclear energy. The German magazine Der Spiegel heralded the 9 11 of the nuclear industry and the end of the nuclear era, while Spain s leading newspaper El Pais preached that supporting this energy was irrational, and that China has put a brake on its nuclear ambitions.