Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four U.S. submarines-two streamlined snorkel types, Cochino and Tusk, and two older fleet types-left their base at New London, Conn, six weeks ago and headed quietly into the Atlantic. A brief Navy release announced that they were off on a training cruise to Ireland and return. They reached Londonderry all right, on July 29, and left for home-but by an exceedingly circuitous route...
Perched on orange-colored canvas chairs atop fern-scented Mount Ammouda, smiling King Paul of the Hellenes, grim U.S. General James Van Fleet and several Greek army commanders awaited the signal for the attack. At daybreak, newly arrived U.S.-made Helldivers cut across the pale blue sky to unload their cargo of Napalm fire bombs. In a few minutes, the sleepy purple mountains seemed ablaze. At week's end, King Paul and his party could celebrate a smashing victory...
...night they watched graceful Siamese dance exhibitions or sipped drinks under the fake banana trees of the Silver Palm Club. The more adventurous let fleet-tongued, fleet-footed samlor (pedicab) boys wheel them off to the Cathay Night Club, where they jitterbugged the night away with wriggly Siamese taxi dancers. (Lest the visitors get any improper ideas, signs at their hotels informed them sternly: "It is forbidden to entertain lady guests in the bedroom without permission of the management...
...born at East Brookfield, Mass, in 1862, the same year as the Battle of Antietam, got into organized baseball (as a catcher) during the presidency of Chester A. Arthur. He became a big-league manager (for the Pittsburgh Pirates) four years before Admiral Dewey sank the Spanish fleet at Manila. In his 49 years in Philadelphia he won nine pennants (the last in 1931) and five World Series, trained a roster of greats whose names still make old fans' eyes gleam-Rube Waddell, Chief Bender, Frank ("Home Run") Baker, Eddie Collins, Lefty Grove, Mickey Cochrane, Jimmy Foxx, Al Simmons...
...back home in the U.S., happily out of reach of British newsmen. Publisher Roy Howard, who had dispatched Leech to Britain, was not so lucky. Stepping out of his plane at a London airport last week, he walked right into a drumfire of questions from a squad of angry Fleet Streeters. Howard stuck to Leech's guns: "Marvelous reporting...