Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GOSBANK, the Soviet Federal Reserve. In the '30s at Stalin's order. Nikolai Bulganin. rising executive, was elected chairman of the Moscow Soviet-for six years he was in effect mayor of Moscow (his successor:Nikita Khrushchev). Bulganin traveled abroad, bringing back such improvements as a fleet of trolley buses, a manual of French traffic 20 signals and an order for natty white gloves for Moscow's traffic cops...
Never in history had such an evacuation taken place with such a show of overwhelming power. Flung wide across the sullen East China Sea was the mighty U.S. Seventh Fleet. Cruisers and destroyers prowled to and fro within range of Communist shore batteries. From below the horizon, five of the U.S.'s mightiest carriers flung an umbrella of jet fighters above the two scruffy little islands. Closer in. the sea was littered with transports and scurrying landing craft in the disheveled bustle of a major amphibious operation...
...first day, Navy pilots reported sighting a few silver-wing flashes over the mainland and a few scattered junks. Peking radio blustered about "provocation" and "danger of starting a major war." But in the face of the Seventh Fleet's might, Peking subsided into disconnected and embarrassed mutterings. By Monday night all sign of Communist activity had vanished. The muzzle covers stayed...
...patrol, a U.S. Skyraider swung too close to the Communist mainland, caught a burst of antiaircraft fire, and safely ditched near a Nationalist minesweeper. The Seventh Fleet's commander, Vice Admiral Alfred M. Pride, quickly explained that the plane had "misnavigated" within the three-mile limit, and therefore. "Communist gunfire is interpreted as being defensive...
Perched on an ornate armchair in his office last week, Colonel Marcos Pérez Jiménez, President of oil-rich Venezuela, received with protocolary propriety Admiral Jerauld Wright, U.S.N., commander of NATO's Atlantic Fleet. The next day, with solemn ceremony, President Pérez Jiménez opened the 1955 session of his obedient Congress...