Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ready." U.S. officers here have solid faith in the new Greek army. "I've fought eight campaigns with these people," said Major General Reuben Jenkins. "The first four were horrible. The last four were wonderful." A rugged combat officer, Jenkins came here as General Van Fleet's right hand, and, since Van Fleet's transfer last year, has been chief adviser to the Greek army. He added: "If anyone thinks he can take these people on and not get his nose thoroughly bloodied, he is sure as hell mistaken." Lieut. General Stylianos Maniadakis, whose Greek corps lies...
Methodical ground advance would probably not catch this 60,000. On Friday, General Ridgway staged Operation Tomahawk to do the job. A fleet of Flying Boxcars and C-46s dropped some 3,300 paratroopers of the 187th Regimental Combat Team (11th Airborne Division), plus attached Rangers, on the flatlands around Munsan, 22 miles northwest of Seoul and twelve miles below the 38th parallel. Under Brigadier General Frank S. Bowen Jr., it was the second and biggest paradrop of the Korean war; the first took place last October north of Pyongyang (TIME...
...doubtful honor of being the only big British daily without a correspondent in Korea. (To cover the Far East, the Herald has one string correspondent in Tokyo.) In Europe, the Herald recently dropped its oldtime Central European expert, G.E.R. Gedye, closed up its bureaus in Paris and Berlin. Fleet Street gossiped that the paper would soon abolish its only remaining overseas bureau, in Washington...
...Said one Fleet Streeter last week: "To the Herald a red-hot tip on the third race at Newmarket is more important any day than a spread of Communism in Asia. No wonder British workers find it hard to get steamed up over Korea or Iran or the urgency for the West to rearm...
...ably defended by a small, deadly force of janissaries (most of them Christian children, adopted by the state, and trained in fanatical devotion to the Sultan) and by the new Turkish fleet. Under a pair of swashbuckling corsairs, Khair-ad-Din Barbarossa and Dragut, the Mediterranean was swept clean, for more than a century, of European fleets...