Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...should establish no military garrisons in Kurdish territory, that Kurds should be allowed to keep their arms, should continue the time-honored custom of paying taxes by bargaining with their tribal chiefs. Kamâl Atatürk gave them an answer-30,000 Turkish troops, a fleet of war planes. The rebels were dug out like foxes from their mountain holes, butchered to the tune...
...outlook. Both run a 99-ft. stretch before the takeoff, grasp the pole at 12 ft. 2 in. for the ascension. At the crest of their flight they are poised almost upside down, flip their bodies over the bar with a quick kick. Meadows is light (165 lb.) and fleet, depends upon speed along the runway. Sefton is taller (6 ft. 3 in.) and huskier (180 lb.), counts more upon brute strength...
...years. He asked Congress to provide 1) a $10,000,000 appropriation, 2) authorization to contract for $150,000,000 worth of ships, as a starter for his friend Joseph Kennedy, once head of SEC, now chairman of the Maritime Commission, charged with subsidizing the rundown merchant fleet of the U. S. into efficient operating order...
This week General Fidel Davila, taking over the Bilbao sector for the Rightists, won praise from Franco by loosing a thunderbolt attack on the Basque defenses. A monster fleet of 63 airplanes sent bombs whistling into the suburb of Lezama, more into the trenches at strategic Lemona Mountain. After heavy artillery preparation and machine gun strafing from the air, 30 tanks lumbered up the slope followed by Rightist infantry. Announced the Insurgents: "The hill is entirely in our hands...
...Pittsburgh, which never had won. Mainstays of both colleges were Negroes: Columbia's Captain Benjamin Washington Johnson and Pitt's tall (6 ft. 4 in.) John Y. Woodruff, neither of whom had won an I. C. 4-A title. When fleet little Ben Johnson not only whizzed home first in .the 100-yd. dash and won the broad jump, but also reeled off a 220-yd. semifinal in a near-record 21 sec., Columbia thought the championships already won. Thereupon Pitt's Woodruff, in the quarter-and half-mile races, duplicated Johnson's double victory, loping...