Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Queen Victoria ruled the waves, Lord Palmerston sent the fleet to blockade the port of Athens simply to collect damages for a Gibraltar-born Jewish Briton whose house had been destroyed by a Greek mob. "A British subject in whatever land he may be," proclaimed the Queen's Foreign Secretary, "shall feel that the strong arm of England will protect him against injustice and wrong...
...spicy series by the duke's ex-valet. It was aggravated this year when the Pictorial had to be stopped by court order (obtained by the royal family) from completing an intimate series by the ex-superintendent of the Queen's weekend home, Windsor Castle. Many Fleet Street newspapermen, without blaming the royal family for irritation at peephole journalists, nonetheless blame Buckingham Palace for doing nothing to encourage legitimate coverage. Any royal tour is bound to have press coverage, and since the primary object is to get good public relations for Britain, newsmen argue it should be covered...
Anne's ascension is the most spectacular result so far of the British press battle for female readers. Driving the combatants is the solid economic fact that British advertisers spend more than $17,000,000 weekly luring women v. a paltry $3,000,000 on men. All Fleet Street is chasing petticoats, from the grand and gouty Times, whose Monday women's page creaks like a corseted dowager, to the Daily Worker, which regularly runs features on fashions...
...dash, University record-holder Sandy Dodge has little chance of beating Villanova's fleet Ed Collymore or Yale's Steve Snyder, but he should take one of the top five places. Jim Doty should finish fourth in the 35-1b. weight throw, behind Ed Bagdonas of Army and Eino Keerd and John Lawlor...
...island-hopping tours, and added that, anyway, the Lapu Lapu was not costing the nation scarce dollars, and could be used by his presidential successors as well as himself. As criticism mounted, Garcia designated the Lapu Lapu as "flagship" of the Philippine navy (making her. apparently, the only unarmed fleet flagship in the world). He promised that she would be available for "mercy missions" in case of typhoons, tidal waves and such...