Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fleet: "I don't know, except that somebody higher up will have to tell...
...theory" when the Romans hit Syracuse ... He tirelessly doodled up military engines of such bewildering variety that the Roman marines broke and ran whenever a beam showed itself above the city wall. It does credit to his legend that he is said to have fired part of the enemy fleet with burning glasses. Thus Syracuse resisted for three years until betrayed, almost entirely through the efforts of an aroused intellectual, who took no special pride in practical accomplishment, but no doubt simply felt that the exceptional man should as a matter of course be the exceptional citizen...
...military. There can hardly be any question of the U.N.'s ability to defeat the Chinese in Korea. It was a stalemate produced by a paralysis of wills at political levels. Lieut. Colonel Melvin Voorhees' Korean Tales contains this passage of an interview with General James Van Fleet, who thought the war could and should...
...Fleet: "I don't know. The answer must come from higher authority...
...high proportion of the information about this enemy is of the hard-to-get variety. Because modern weapons threaten whole nations, a U.S. chief of intelligence must bear the kind of responsibility that Winston Churchill in World War I ascribed to Admiral Jellicoe. commander of the British Grand Fleet: "The only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon." In that sense, Allen Dulles has the most important mission in the long, sordid, heroic and colorful history of the intelligence services. This scholarly, hearty, pipe-smoking lawyer is in strange contrast to some of his famous...