Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a blab-mouthed Congressman leaked this news to the press, the Air Force let out an anguished cry. For months it has been shifting the big planes from base to base, doing all it could to make its handful of B-36s look like a mighty fleet. Even some Congressmen were shocked by the leak. Said Senator Dick Russell, who presided over the MacArthur hearing and did his level best to protect official secrets: "It is difficult to conceive of such utter lack of responsibility . . . [This] might well be the cause of World...
...waved the stick at him to shake him up a little"), Citation lengthened his stride and drew away from the field. He won by a breezing four lengths, thanks, in part, to a break in the weights which made Citation carry only 120 Ibs. while third-place Be Fleet toted 122. It was like the old days. But this victory, Big Cy's 32nd in 45 starts, was something special. It brought Citation's total earnings for Calumet Farm to $1,085,760,* made him the first million-dollar horse...
Some of Rudyard Kipling's mood overtook U.S. military men as they warily watched the steel-shod paws of Communism outstretched. Harry Truman warned: "We cannot yet be sure ... It is still too early to say what they have in mind." In Korea, General Van Fleet kept his men in sharp contact with the enemy; the Navy and Air Force ordered fresh reinforcements to the Far East. U.S. military men agreed that the negotiations would probably be a matter of weeks...
...Korean inspection tour, flying a few hundred yards behind the grasshopper plane of Lieut. General James Van Fleet, the light plane carrying Under Secretary of the Army Archibald S. Alexander crash-landed on a mountainside near the eastern front. He telephoned the U.S. to assure his wife that his injuries were slight (two black eyes, a bump on the head, one broken foot bone), then flew home to a big welcome in Washington...
...grosser absurdities of his play to Sneer, played only adequately by Thayer David, stating quite simply: "It's a rule!" Indeed the rules seem to apply quite aptly to the ordinary drama, though not to Sheridan. For "The Critic" sweeps through a duel, a reenactment of the British fleet subduing the Spanish Armada, and a scene in which Nancy Marchand goes mad with her "confidante" Jan Farrand mimicking her exquisitely. In a grand boffola ending Brittania is lowered from the ceiling by a block and tackle. Andrew E. Norman