Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heap of Korean war criticisms grew when General Van Fleet told Congress that his efforts had been crippled...
...three or four times just to keep him at work." The Dancer stayed on the job long enough to win by a neck in a dashing 2:283/5, one of the fastest Belmont Stakes in history, and just two-fifths off the record set by Count Fleet in 1943 and tied by Citation...
...General James Van Fleet...
...Communist guerrillas came back to Kalavryta too in 1948, during Greece's bitter civil war and for a month held and looted the village. Again there were cries for help. The King and Queen came; so did General Van Fleet. Athens granted $40-a-month pensions to the widows in black. But soon Athens forgot; three years ago the pensions were stopped, and important officials no longer thought to come. "It is the'way of governments to forget," said a widow of Kalavryta...
Highway to Hollywood. One advantage of Noyes's traditionalism was that his work quickly became popular. His first collection, The Loom of Years (1902), was welcomed alike by George Meredith and Punch. When he wrote The Phantom Fleet, a poetic plea for a bigger & better British navy, even the Admiralty was roused. "The Navy League made use of it on Trafalgar Day ... and presented me with a walkingstick made of the oak and bronze of Nelson's Victory...