privation - noun - an act or instance of depriving; the state of being deprived of something, especially of something required or desired; destitution; need.
What we might say of someone's obvious absence from this list (although, I'm similarly guilty this week - way too busy!)
Tuesday, October 03, 2006
blitzkrieg
blitzkrieg - n - A swift, sudden military offensive, usually by combined air and mobile land forces.
Literally, "lightning war." Another German word that has entered the English-speakers vocabulary.
It wasn't known in 1939, but Germany threw virtually everything it had into its Polish invasion, which began September 1, 1939. Had Germany been attacked from the west at that time, the war in Europe may not have gone any further.
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