Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both Parliament and the press there was an immediate outcry. "What action is being taken against the people who beat Podola unconscious?" shouted Laborite Reginald Paget in the House of Commons. Hard-bitten Fleet Street reporters chipped in to pay for Podola's defense. But when the time came for Podola's trial last week, it was neither police brutality nor ordinary insanity at the time of the crime that was offered as Podola's defense. Instead, Defense Counsel Frederick Lawton, Q.C., argued that "a very, very severe fright," possibly triggered by the events of Podola...
...When the fleet set sail out of Stamford, Conn, for the 25th annual round-trip race to Martha's Vineyard, skippers blinked at the sight of Bill Luders' 39-ft. Storm: she was carrying no boom and no mainsail. But when the fleet made it back to Stamford, Luders had sailed off with the race. Storm's win dramatized the fact that in distance racing these days, victory often goes not to the fastest but to the designer who gets the mostest out of The Rule-the complex, 27-page system of handicapping spelled out in detail...
Under her unorthodox rig, Storm sailed fine, both on and off the wind. She finished 3 hr. 18 min. 26 sec. behind the scratch boat. But with the extra four hours' handicap, Storm won handily, beat the fleet on corrected time...
...command nightmare, as seven nations (Japan. Britain, Russia. France, Italy, Austria, the U.S.) raced for glory. Nevertheless, the melee helped train such young military men as U.S. Marine Lieut. Smedley Butler, and British Naval Officers David Beatty and John Jellicoe. successively commanders in chief of the British fleet in World...
...commodore of a squadron including Bonhomme Richard (40 guns), frigates Alliance (36 guns) and Pallas (26 guns), and brig Vengeance (12 guns), Jones was cruising off Yorkshire's Flamborough Head when at 3 o'clock one afternoon he sighted a Baltic merchant fleet, escorted by frigate Serapis (50 guns) and sloop of war Countess of Scarborough (20 guns...