Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...special urgency. By his presence, the President means to show the flag in the Mediterranean, where Russian naval strength has been growing. The point will not be lost when he appears at sea on the bridge of the guided-missile cruiser Springfield, a flagship of the Sixth Fleet, or when he calls on NATO's southern headquarters in Naples. His visit with General Franco in Madrid will be a much publicized reminder of the renewed agreement on American military bases in Spain, just across the water from the Russian missiles...
During the '50's, when Nixon was Vice-President, John Foster Dulles liked to explain that he wanted to build up a gigantic bomber fleet that could contain communism simply by devastating any country that liked land reform too much...
...force of 400 Zambian chauffeurs-in-training tooled around Lusaka in a fleet of 120 VIP cars, each equipped with a radiotelephone. The opening of the university's fall semester was delayed so that overflow guests could be housed in the dormitories...
...measures, the cab crime rate in New York City has continued to soar. As one police official says: "Taxis are just an easy mark." So is the taxi passenger. Installing lockboxes on all New York's cabs will cost an estimated $468,000-and both Mayor Lindsay and fleet owners hint that a fare increase will be needed...
...yearly packed into San Giovanni Rotondo during the life of Padre Pio di Pietreleina, a friar who was said to have received the stigmata; some paid up to $30 for bandages he was said to have worn. His death in 1968 brought deep recession: the town's taxicab fleet, for example, dwindled from 15 to three. Residents' spirits perked up in February, when proceedings for Padre Pio's canonization began, and local authorities started building such projects as a "Way of the Cross," in the hope of eventually attracting a new flood of pilgrims...