Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could fairly be blamed for all, or even most of TWA's problems, but both evidently suffered increasing frustration trying to deal with them. Caught without sufficient long-term fuel contracts, TWA has been forced to pay more than competitors United and American for kerosene to operate its fleet of 230 jets. Early this year, in a swap with Pan Am, TWA surrendered all of its Pacific routes in return for a handful of new routes to Southern Europe, two of which (to Nice and Barcelona) TWA has so far elected not to fly. Meanwhile, the recession has reduced...
...biggest warship in the convoy, as it turned out, was not Egypt's. It was instead the 14,600-ton guided missile cruiser Little Rock, flagship of the U.S. Sixth Fleet. The Little Rock was trimmed with flags, including the Stars and Stripes, which flapped visibly in the hot summer wind. Two Soviet admirals among the guests in the flotilla-Moscow's sole representation at the ceremonies-glowered and gloomed...
...proud regard for history and heritage and an abiding need to construct a synthetic mythology; a sweeping national certitude and the hypocrisy that comes with it. Altman is fearless in his thematic ambitions for Nashville, and it is a good measure of his success that the movie is always fleet and supple, never top-heavy. The director and his talented collaborator Joan Tewkesbury (who also did the screenplay for Altman's excellent Thieves Like Us) find their major metaphor right at the heart of the country music scene and the people who create all those tunes about broken hearts...
AMERICAN INDIFFERENCE to Turkey's order for "peacekeeping" in Cyprus prompted Greek President Caramanlis to end the home-port arrangement for the Sixth Fleet at Eleusis and to close an American air base. By tempering Greek associations with NATO he strengthened his domestic standing, as the U.S. is unpopular in Greece. Kissinger is despised for his support of repressive regimes in Greece. Chile, Vietnam, Cyprus...and Vice President Rockefeller is ridiculed, at least since his foolish slur in response to a serious question. When asked how he would feel if he were Greek and Turkey used U.S. supplied weapons against...
...South's officers gained valuable battlefield experience in South Viet Nam. In the air, however, the North enjoys a 3-to-1 advantage in planes. The South must therefore rely on U.S. fighter-bombers based at two airfields in South Korea and on the carriers of the Seventh Fleet...