Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy-Air Force quarrel had been brought out into the open last January, when Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz in his swan song proclaimed: "The Navy of the future will be capable of ... delivering atomic bombs from carrier-based planes." The carrier-admirals for whom he spoke saw the Navy's new bombers operating off 80,000-ton carriers (for one of which Forrestal has approved plans). From these floating airbases, they claimed, they could bomb the enemy from any point in the world. The Air Force quietly seethed...
...Pacific Fleet Headquarters figured out that if Hawaii and/or Alaska is admitted as a new state, it will be cheaper to replace 149,895 fleet flags at a cost of $1.5 million than to rearrange the stars...
...Vero Beach, Fla., veteran George Sisler, 54, the greatest first-baseman who ever wore spikes, got ready to manufacture a new first-baseman for the Brooklyn Dodgers. He had a talented and versatile athlete to work on: hard-hitting, fleet-footed Pistol Pete Reiser. After two weeks of private lessons, Teacher Sisler expects to have Outfielder Reiser (who seemed to be forever crashing into the concrete outfield wall at Ebbets Field) ready to replace Jackie Robinson at first base for the Dodgers...
...Barclaymen drew to within seven points of the Green in the waning moments of play. They lost Hauptfuhrer in the process, however, and then watched the fleet-footed enemy drop in three baskets and an equal number of foul shots, punctuated only by two Crimson free throws, to clinch the encounter...
...weasel," the tracked, amphibious jeep that wallowed through mud from Italy to the Pacific. Pyke first wanted his weasels built to jump sideways so they could avoid dive bombers. His plan to combat U-boats in the North Atlantic burgeoned into the Habakkuk Project.* It called for a fleet of 2,000-ft. iceberg aircraft carriers built of Pykrete (40-foot-thick ice blocks reinforced with wood pulp). This idea fascinated Winston Churchill; a working model was laboriously constructed in Canada's Lake Patricia, but the project was abandoned as Allied successes against U-boats ended the need...