flak

tiedottaja

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ilmatorjuntatykki Ground-based anti-aircraft guns firing explosive shells.
1964, David John Cawdell Irving, The Destruction of Dresden, http://books.google.com/books?id=b6wrAQAAIAAJ&q=%22flak%22+-intitle:flak&dq=%22flak%22+-intitle:flak&hl=en&ei=2jwpTsSyCMjOmAWIkbCqDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=8&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBzge page 74,

(..) to consider whether the city was in February 1945 an undefended city within the meaning of the 1907 Hague Convention, it will be necessary to examine the establishment and subsequent total dispersal of the city's flak batteries, before the date of the triple blow.

He was promoted to general of flak artillery on March 1, 1945, and ended the war as the general of the flak arm at OKL, the High Command of the Luftwaffe.

At 1057 we were just over the islands and at 1100 the tail gunner reported flak at six oclock, below.

I could hear the fragments from the flak shells hitting the plane like someone throwing rocks at it.

This filter Herman and Chomsky call “flak,” which refers to letters, speeches, phone calls, and other forms of group and individual complaints. Advertisers and broadcasters avoid programming content that might cause large volumes of flak.

AIM head, Reed Irvine's diatribes are frequently published, and right-wing network flaks who regularly assail the “liberal media,” such as Michael Ledeen, are given Op-ed column space, sympathetic reviews, and a regular place on talk shows as experts.