Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...freshman after a vicious scrimmage initiation: the Yale captain deliberately rasped his canvas sleeves back and forth across Pudge's nose until it was raw and bleeding, ordered opposing linemen to step on his knuckles, kick him in the shins. Pudge passed the test, became a fleet-footed guard* on the Yale team of 1888 that scored 698 points against the likes of Penn, Rutgers and Princeton, and was never scored on itself...
...over papers across the U.S., and were on every radio and TV network. It was, said the New York World-Telegram and Sun, "the most mishandled thing Washington has seen since the disaster at Pearl Harbor was kept 'secret' long after everyone -including the enemy-knew our fleet had been wiped...
Presumed Dead. Lieut. James Alward Van Fleet Jr., U.S. Air Force, only son of retired Army General James A. Van Fleet; two years after he was listed as missing following the disappearance of his B-26 bomber behind Communist lines; near Sunchon, Korea...
...running at about $4,500 and circulation down to 47,000 he gave up the search entirely last week. The typographical union delivered the death blow; it refused to let Brittain cut his staff sharply in a last desperate effort to keep the Recorder alive. Commented the Manchester Guardian: "Fleet Street wished the Recorder well. It was an undernourished, sickly child, not very bright and lacking in inspiration, but it was truthful and had good manners . . . It lived longer than . . . expected...
...some $200 million yearly in various businesses and fat contracts for the New Haven to haul the goods. At a cost of $70 million, the New Haven has been completely dieselized and electrified, now has some 1,300 new units, including 40 self-propelled Budd cars (the largest U.S. fleet), 362 new diesel-electric locomotives. Piggyback cars for carrying trucks have been increased until they produce $2,000,000 in revenue each year (100 more, plus 115 air-conditioned passenger cars are on order for 1954), and Dumaine has torn up 340 miles of track no longer needed and rebuilt...