Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrival. Ike, bundled in an overcoat, climbed into a sedan and the convoy rolled quietly into Seoul through the windy, subfreezing (18°) night. When his car pulled up at Eighth Army headquarters, U.N. Commander Mark Clark and the Eighth Army's James Van Fleet stepped out of the shadows for a handshake and an old friends' greeting. Then they hustled Ike inside for a turkey sandwich, a cup of hot chocolate and a bull session...
That night Omar Bradley slept in Van Fleet's room, which faced on the street. Ike-on the insistence of the Secret Service-slept in a room off the street and facing the compound. And four-starred Jim Van Fleet, outranked all around, moved to an Army cot in the laundry...
...lose face if Ike did not pay a return call on the presidential mansion. The Secret Service was against going about in Seoul, but finally Ike gave in, and changed his schedule. Back in his rooms within an hour, he packed up, left a $20 tip for Suzy, Van Fleet's Korean maid (who said later that she still thinks Cardinal Spellman the nicest American), and said goodbye all around. At 8:01 p.m., just three days after his arrival, Ike's planes took off for Guam...
...expected to stop over briefly at Pacific Fleet headquarters at Pearl Harbor, then fly on home to close the circle of a 22,000-mile journey without precedent in U.S. history...
...scraped into World War I as a subaltern at the age of 18, made the retreat from the Somme. In 1919 he was part of a hush-hush force in the Caspian Sea area which helped defend the White Russian fleet from Bolshevik attack: "All pretty unsatisfactory from a political point of view, though great fun for a young officer." Now he likes to say that he is the "only senior British officer who ever fought the Russians." Between the world wars, he played polo and rode to hounds, became bayonet-fighting champion of the British army, made...