Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour of gathering darkness and discouragement, the people of Great Britain turned again to a leader who had served them well before. The message, "Winston is back," flashed through the world as it once flashed through the British fleet, carrying with it a quickening reassurance and a leap of hope...
...James A. Van Fleet...
...Kumsong, shot up everything in sight, and retired to their lines without losing a vehicle, although the Reds had fired on them from a respectful distance with antitank guns. After that, it was clear that Kumsong was finished as an enemy base. There was no need for Van Fleet actually to occupy it until he could do so with a minimum of casualties. This week, after another bold tank raid in which the U.S. armor braved enemy mortar fire, a U.S. patrol moved up to within 600 yards of the blasted rail and road junction. Chinese | resistance seemed to have...
Turbulent seas almost washed out the show Eisenhower had come to witness, featuring some 30 warships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet and five Dutch ships. Marine amphibious landings on Malta, mine-laying off Sicily by Navy bombers from French Morocco, and practice landings by French navy pilots on the 45,000-ton carrier Franklin D. Roosevelt were all canceled. But at the end of two days, a helicopter windmilled through grey, moist skies and gingerly deposited a grinning Eisenhower on the flight deck of the Roosevelt. There he watched the Navy's Corsairs, Skyraiders and twin-jet Banshees bombing...
...Count Fleet, the leading three-year-old of 1943 and a top contender for 1951 sire honors...