Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...short term, at least-by opposing the coup. The Administration had been pleased by Papadopoulos' recent promises of free elections, and by his acceptance in principle of the next phase of the U.S. Navy's plans to use Greece as a "home port" for the Sixth Fleet. Whether the new junta will go along with the plan is not yet known, though Androutsopoulos has already made it clear that Greece will remain in NATO...
...text mainly consists of lines from the song's forgettable and often unsingable lyrics. Spier first switches back and forth from the British fleet to the American defenders, then moves on to scenes from American history or contemporary life to illustrate the closing stanzas. Spier's pictures bear long study and show everything from the new Congreve rockets used in the attack, to gunners' swabs, sextants, belaying pins and the running rigging of a fleet of British...
Also, New Times is not using its people well--two of its best, Studs Terkel and Nicholas von Hoffman, have yet to be heard from, while Bob Greene, an insignificant Chicago columnist, has already weighed in three times. The fleet of local correspondents does not seem to have been used much yet either, and they are potentially the magazine's greatest strength...
...source, who wishes to remain anonymous, said Papadopoulos, who refused to let the United States Sixth Fleet refuel at a major Greek naval base during the recent Middle East war, showed signs of swaying from U.S foreign policy...
...passenger growth on the North Atlantic; its traffic is up 17% on that run, 50% on the fast-growing Far East run, and 15% systemwide. And quiescent workers recently finished painting BRITISH AIRWAYS on the company's 220 planes, which now constitute the world's largest commercial fleet...