Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nanchi has little or no military significance. If the Communists try to pursue their success by attacking the islands of Quemoy and Matsu on the way to Formosa, they are very likely to find that retreat has ended and that the air and naval strength of the U.S. Seventh Fleet stands in their...
...East arises not from Chinese but from American aggression," cried Bevanite Harold Wilson. "Surely it is clear by now that peace will not be insured until Chiang Kai-shek and his chief lieutenants have been safely stowed away on St. Helena and the U.S. Seventh Fleet sent to guard him there." At week's end, the Labor Party unanimously approved a resolution demanding that the government tell the U.S. "it could not reckon on any military assistance from Britain in hostilities connected with the offshore islands...
Pride of the Seventh Fleet...
...Hint. The New York Times, which had already printed its last edition, got the wire-service stories in time to put out 24,400 copies of a "Late City Extra" with a 450-word bulletin dropped into Page One. The Times Sunday Magazine hastily pulled a Seventh Fleet picture off its front cover, substituted one of Bulganin, Mao and Khrushchev. The Russian censors, swamped by the flood of words, let many a piece of copy slip through which ordinarily might have been spiked; e.g., A.P. reported: "Muscovites questioned at random appeared bored at the news. 'What difference does...
...confidant and informal adviser to a long gray line of cadets. Since it all began in 1896, Director John Ford gets a chance to toss in the names or quick flashes of the faces of the West Pointers who later became national heroes: MacArthur, Patton, Bradley, Stratemeyer, Wainwright, Van Fleet, and in the scene depicting the first Army-Notre Dame football game of 1913, a fierce young Notre Dame end, Knute Rockne. There is also a glimpse of another of Maher's favorite lads: a blond, pink-faced boy named-Dwight Eisenhower (played by Harry Carey Jr.). ^ There...