Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...replace General Omar N. Bradley [as chairman], the top prospect is Admiral Arthur William Radford, naval aviator and commander of the Pacific Fleet . . . To succeed General Joseph Lawton Collins, the President would like to name his old friend, General Alfred Maximilian Gruenther . . . But Ike is said to think that NATO needs Gruenther more than it needs General Matthew Ridgway . . . Leading candidate: Ridgway. Probable choice [for Air Force Chief of Staff] : General Nathan Farragut Twining . . . Admiral William Morrow Fechteler . . . will probably be replaced as Chief of Naval Operations. Front runner for the job: Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney...
...liquid foundation, a touch of red-blue powder rouge . . ." The coronation gown, bejeweled and embroidered white satin, swished softly. On top of it went the crimson parliamentary robe to be worn to the Abbey. The Duke of Edinburgh, blond and handsome in the uniform of an admiral of the fleet, joined her, and together they visited the nursery to say good morning to their excited children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Then it was time...
Also mentioned are George Kennan, former Ambassador to Russia and chief long-range advisor to the State Department since 1949; Dr. Charles Malik, Lebanese delegate to the United Nations; Alan Dulles, diplomat and new head of the Central Intelligence Agency; General James Van Fleet, former United Nations Commander in the Far East; and Chester Bowles, former Ambassador to India...
Baseball's center-fielding DiMaggio dynasty ended when Dominic ("The Little Professor") DiMaggio, 35, fleet, spectacled Boston Red Sox fly hawk (lifetime batting average: .298) announced his voluntary retirement, 13 years after his major-league debut, to join in pasture big brothers Joe (now a television performer) and Vince (now a liquor salesman...
Coming to the U.S. in 1914, "H. I." built up the nation's largest independent cargo fleet (16 owned, 40 to 70 chartered vessels), beat out competitors by undercutting their rates, hiring tough, experienced captains (e.g., the Flying Enterprise's Henrik Kurt Carlsen), and sending his ships wherever profit beckoned. His lone-wolf ventures often provoked international incidents, State Department migraine; before and during the Korean...