Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind. He planned a nonstop flight to Mexico City for a visit with President Miguel Aleman. On the way back he would stop off at Waco, Tex., to get an honorary degree from Baylor University† and later in the week go on to witness part of the Atlantic Fleet maneuvers in the Caribbean...
...that time the only U.S. troops left in China would be a 750-man military mission, a few soldiers guarding surplus-property dumps, and the marines and sailors of the Seventh Fleet base at Tsingtao -who would stay on, with China's consent, as long as the U.S. is legally at war with Japan...
...fierce, cool, little man had all but burned himself out. He came home for a rest, then was ordered to duty as Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Air. He had always detested paper work, and by December he was back on sea duty as commander of the Eighth Fleet. Nine months later, he took over the Atlantic Fleet...
...powerhouse dunked the Army 53 to 22 last Saturday in the pool of the Hudson River dwellers. Jim Van Fleet was the sole Pointer to hit the wall anywhere ahead of the pack, and at that he only tied Yale's Ed Weiss in the 220-yard breast stroke. The Crimson's Chuck Hoelzer, on comparative times, may edge even this heavy...
...While we were still out at sea on board the invasion fleet," he mused, "we heard a radio broadcast on which Wendell Willkie was praising Mongomery's defeat of Rommel at El Alemein as the great turning point of the war." The historian indicated, however, that Willkie made that broad statement while unaware of the approaching landings which were to create what Professor Morison terms one of the major climaxes in the world conflict...