Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storm howled along the Portuguese coast. But that night, as usual, the 20-ship fishing fleet put out from the villages of Leixões, Matosinhos, Francelos, and the others. Fishing was good, but as the wind steadily increased, ship after ship put back to port. Only four remained at sea. The storm became a hurricane...
Next day the storm still raged, but the fishing fleet wanted to put to sea again; the authorities forbade it. One boy, orphaned with five sisters and brothers, was asked by a social worker what he wanted to be when he grew up. He said: "A fisherman, like father, of course...
...access to world news through British newspapers is necessarily small. The penny press prints four pages a day, the tabloids eight; Fleet Street's 15 dailies can be tucked under the arm more easily than a midweek copy of the hefty New York Times. Rather than drop pages, some editors, like Robert Barrington-Ward of the London Times, have chosen to save newsprint by dropping readers...
...years of grubby austerity have filled Fleet Street with a certain frustration-a neurosis Britain's hardy provincial papers seem to have escaped. "How can we train reporters," asked a London news editor, "when even a good man can go for weeks without getting a line into print? It's just a dry run, night after night." Some journalists have been overtaken by a creeping lethargy: it is hard to hustle for scoops when editions will sell out without them. "I keep feeling guilty," said a circulation manager. "Instead of talking people into buying more papers...
...them. She heard herself denounced by one little soapboxer who, unfortunately, could not pronounce the letter R. He rose to a climax with the cry: "I want to say that Miss Webecca West's articles are twipe, twipe, twipe from the gweatest twipe shop in the universe, Fleet Stweet...