Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gdansk demonstrations quickly became a drama doubly motivated. While some protesters were setting fire to party headquarters, others were looting stores in gestures of need or greed. Men dashed to safety with looted overcoats hastily donned over their own. and women lugged bulging packages. Fleet-footed teen-agers took everything from fur coats to oranges and champagne. Some entrepreneurs stopped long enough to sell surplus loot at curbside. One boy's inventory of shirts, for only 40 zlotys (or $1) apiece, was a steal in itself...
...grams generate waves throughout the Navy, the main impact among the some 40 ships of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean has been to push all commanders into a new concern for the dependents of their seagoing officers and men. When the U.S.S. Springfield recently put into Malta, more than 20 petty officers' wives from the ship's home port of Gaeta awaited the ship's arrival, because for the first time their husbands were permitted to spend nights ashore at a transient stop. Some 450 men from the carrier John F. Kennedy are flying home for Christmas thanks...
...concern also shows up in the new dialogue that has developed among skippers, the men they command and Navy wives. Aboard the Springfield, Fleet Commander Vice Admiral Isaac Kidd holds forth in ombudsmen meetings at the same polished table where he and his senior commanders conferred in September with President Nixon. At a recent session, one wife complained that U.S. naval families based in Italy knew too little Italian. Kidd ordered a three-month trial of voluntary lessons. On another complaint, Kidd said he would order Navy doctors and dentists in Naples to visit Gaeta more regularly to treat dependents...
There are, indeed, dangers in too much leniency, as Zumwalt and his aides are well aware. Many top admirals wonder if the Navy has not already gone too far. As he retired from his post as Commander of the Pacific Fleet this month, Admiral John J. Hyland hinted as much in Zumwalt's presence, asking in his farewell speech: "How far can we permit absolute freedom of speech, deportment and dress?and still hang onto the indispensable element of discipline?" He warned against being weakened by "bleeding hearts...
Land or Peace. Hussein was received with particular warmth because three months ago he spared the U.S. a difficult decision. When a Syrian armored force invaded Jordan to aid Palestine guerrillas in their battle with the King's army, both the U.S. Sixth Fleet and Israeli forces were poised to intervene on Hussein's side. But the King's tanks and planes repelled the Syrians. The U.S., which is already acting on a $30 million allotment to re-equip the Jordanian army, listened to requests by Hussein for additional equipment that could bring the bill...