Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...need to tell it to the Maltese. Their country is darkly threatening to play the mouse that roared. Already last week its delegates were waxing eloquent about the need to demilitarize the Mediterranean and turn it into a neutral basin-presumably after they have dispatched the Sixth Fleet back across the Atlantic...
...take care of them after they become sick. He put some of his ideas into practice as medical director of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey from 1946 until 1955. Said he: "It is not uncommon to find an executive who worries more about tire replacement on his fleet of trucks than the health of his employees...
Amoozin' but confoozin', as Daisy Mae might fret. The frost is on the turnip down in Dogpatch, but no date has yet been set yet for this year's Sadie Hawkins Day, that highly moveable feast on which Marryin' Sam will obligingly hitch a fleet-hoofed gal to any hapless bachelor she can catch. Finally, at Daisy Mae's insistence, Cartoonist Al Capp hisself makes a rare appearance in the strip to schedule the prenuptial foot race for Nov. 26. Snorts a disgusted Li'l Abner: "Ha!-Any day is okay when...
...loyal underdoggers were busy recalling all the old familiar whiny excuses, among them the "She can only move in light air" ploy. Shamelessly followed this summer by its corollary: "She can only move in heavy air." As the two boats-Australia 44 sec. back-beat up toward the spectator fleet, now placed upwind of the first mark, the word goes round. "Forty-four seconds behind! That's her best first leg ever...
...academic point. Local authorities can still block the Concorde from most airports. Moreover a strong threat arose last week that no more Concordes would ever be built. After a select committee of Parliament added up the staggering losses that the British government was likely to take on the present fleet (as much as $340 million), Aero space Minister Gerald Kaufman said that no more Concordes would be constructed unless there were profitable orders-which seems most unlikely...