Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading about Russia's pigboat fleet, I considered it a welcome change to know that Uncle Sam is finally doing something about the threat of enemy subs. Hurrah for Rear Admiral Thach and his men of the Navy's ASW (antisubmarine warfare) [Sept. 1]. Maybe now the Navy will show the public that they can do more than just eat good chow and shoot craps...
JAMES F. CALVERT Commander, U.S.N. U.S.S. Skate % Fleet P.O. New York City...
...confusion was compounded by an erroneous report in the New York Times that the Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Pacific forces, Admiral Harry D. Felt, had questioned the Quemoy policy for such unlikely reasons as an alleged ammunition shortage that would inspire, the story said, the fleet to early use of nuclear warheads. (The fact was that Felt cabled heavy support for the policy shortly after he was first asked to comment three weeks ago, felt his force suitable to the job.) The President's mail reflected public apprehension, and he decided to fight the confusion with his major...
...coming out of curiosity, out of need, out of cynicism; shuffling and strutting; some of great intelligence and some of little will. And they have left the drawing room essentially the same as they entered it. It was only an interlude. Polite talk and stale crumpets and a few fleet glimpses of her gallery...
Married. Sarah Vaughan, 34, supple-voiced Negro jazz singer; and Clyde Brooks Atkins, 30, owner of a fleet of taxicabs on Chicago's South Side, onetime football fullback; she for the second time, he for the first; in a City Hall ceremony, in Chicago. Witness: Trumpeter John Birks ("Dizzy") Gillespie. The bride wore a white trapeze dress and green shoes. The witness wore a brown-and-white cord suit, pink shirt, red-and-black tie, and, on his head, a diamond-patterned, black-and-white tarboosh...