Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...landed in Athens. Out stepped Secretary of State George Marshall, who had left his wearisome business in Paris to have a look into the even more wearisome business of Greece. Assembled to greet him, plainly a little embarrassed, were U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady, U.S. General James A. Van Fleet and Greek Premier Themistocles Sophoulis (who wore dark glasses despite the day's grey overcast). The Premier remarked that Greece's fate rested in George Marshall's strong hands. He might have added that these hands were, as usual, expected to straighten out a sad mess...
...House of Commons, Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin made an important statement on Berlin. It was on Fleet Street's front pages within the hour. But in Switzerland, R.H.S. Crossman, Laborite M.P.-journalist on holiday, had to wait 24 hours to read what Bevin had said. Crossman cursed the incompetence of the Swiss press, which ran long book reviews and leisurely think pieces on its newsless front pages. Then he got to thinking it over, and took the curse back...
Army's main threat, however, is in a powerful running attack, engineered by Arnold Galiffa with the help of Bobby Jack Stuart, Win Scott, and Rudy Cosentino. Coach Valpey is relying on his same defensive team to stop this fleet combination...
...over an hour one night last week, U.S. Major General Arthur Harper, General Van Fleet's deputy, watched from a Kastoria window as the rebels lobbed sixty 75-mm. shells into the town. A direct hit through the window of a nearby hospital killed two soldiers and two nurses. The next day Americans asked why the city's lights had not been turned off during the shelling. The answer was fear of looting by neighbors. The Greek army's artillery did not answer the guerrillas until half an hour after the shelling had ended...
...claimed even after the war, was a strategic imbecility." Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was a brilliant tactician, but when he cooked up Pearl Harbor he departed from the sound basic plan of Japanese strategy. This was to complete the conquest of the Western Pacific and wait there for the U.S. fleet, cutting it down by island attacks and then overwhelming it in Philippine waters. In Morison's opinion, one good reason for Admiral Kimmel's failure at Pearl Harbor was that he and his staff thought the enemy would stick to what the Americans regarded as so sound...