Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...happen. Several methods of greatly improving bomb performance showed up in the theoretical calculations. Both the Los Alamos physicists and their bosses back in Washington got excited. They longed to try out the new designs at once, but tests at Eniwetok cost $20 to $100 million, and required a fleet of ships, 9,000 men and several months of time. Why not a test on land and right around home...
...object most strongly to the wording, "in a rickety office in Fleet Street," in your Dec. 10 article on Burke's Landed Gentry. I also wish to make it absolutely clear that I never authorized the word "bribery," e.g., "Editor L. G. Pine has always been besieged by applicants who by cajolery, trickery or even bribery attempt to crash the book." I wish to make it clear that no attempt at bribery has ever been made...
When the Norfolk is commissioned next August, she will be manned by 500 men and 40 officers, will slice through the water at a 30-knot clip. Her job, when she joins the fleet: to lead the Navy's hunter-killer antisubmarine teams. Sub warfare is getting so complicated that the Navy needs a double-barreled killer, a vessel big enough to act as a command ship for the air-sea teams, and tough enough to help them at the final kill...
Theoretically, North Korean territory was again up for grabs. But the Eighth Army's James Van Fleet squelched all thought of a U.N. offensive: "We will not sacrifice our men needlessly. What is the use of thousands of casualties if it is questionable what good they will...
...I.R.O., which was created by the United Nations in 1946, has helped send 3,500,000 back to their homes, has resettled more than 1,000,000 in 70 countries (the U.S. has taken 300,000). At one time the I.R.O.'s chartered ships made up the largest fleet of passenger steamers in the world...