Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these troubled waters. His hero is the skipper of one of the "suicide" tugs that stole out virtually unarmed (in the early days of the war, Britain had no guns to spare), to rescue disabled stragglers of the convoys from the prowling wolf packs of the German undersea fleet. The U-boats sometimes let the lame ducks stay afloat in order to get a shot at the tugboats...
...Russian submarine and fleet units to strike back at U.S. naval operations in the Sea of Japan and the Yellow...
This was no ordinary meeting of Kremlinites and satellites. Something was stirring, as could be judged by the fact that Chou's team included the chief of China's air fleet and the deputy chief of her artillery, as well as such industrial experts as Communist China...
...uniform, Albuquerque did even better. He had a four-room suite of offices in Rio, and branches in three other cities; he bought a newspaper, formed an export-import firm, owned a fleet of 66 taxicabs and four taxi planes, launched a trucking business and bought a partnership in an established car-selling agency. Hourly his 22 messengers dashed out to pay off felipetas. Albuquerque declared that his greatest desire was "to put a copy of the New Testament in the hand and heart of every Brazilian...
...inch propeller shaft of one of his Gold Cup racers, and had stuffed nuts, bolts and rags into the carburetor and blower. Another had been thoroughly doused with gasoline. It was, said Kaiser, "an attempt at plain, cold murder." But he climbed into a third boat in his fleet, buzzed off to a second place behind Shipping Heir Stanley Dollar...