Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have warned that they would support the truckers' strike if the army acts. By week's end, Allende had alerted army troops in all of Chile's 25 provinces to be ready to move against the strikers. The truckers remained defiant. Said one owner of a fleet of three trucks: "If the army comes, we will burn our trucks and run. Then we will start a Maquis...
Radford became a naval flyer after serving in World War I and commanded the Pacific Fleet during the Korean War. A renowned naval strategist, he supported President Eisenhower's belief that the Communist threat to America could be met only with the coun-terthreat of massive nuclear retaliation...
Iran already has an awesome arsenal. Since 1965 it has spent more than $3 billion in the U.S. and Europe on mostly sophisticated arms, including 70 Phantom F-4 jet fighters, 400 tanks, a destroyer, a couple of frigates and what is probably the biggest fleet of Hovercraft (50) in the world. But the Shah, who makes the final decision on all such equipment, wants more. Currently prepared to spend $2 billion or so a year, he has on order 100 F-5E supersonic fighters, another 100 Phantoms, 700 helicopters, 750 tanks, eight destroyers and four frigates. Last week...
Rutherford Hayes puts in an appearance-as the man who brought the telephone to the White House. Teddy Roosevelt is seen, not as the man who dispatched the Great White Fleet to prowl the world's ports, but rather as an amateur art critic who liked what he saw at the controversial New York Armory Show...
Royal tours are not exactly what they used to be. When Queen Elizabeth II arrived in Canada last week at the start of an 11-day visit, Fleet Street virtually ignored the event. The airmail edition of the London Times carried only a three-sentence dispatch-by Agence France-Press; the Daily Mail carried not a line. Even the Canadians, who had not seen their Queen for two years, were not entirely overwhelmed. Some raised once again the question of whether Canada really needs a Queen. The Red Cross felt compelled to announce that a blood supply it had specially...