Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nasser and perhaps disrupt Egypt's cotton market by dumping U.S. surplus cotton abroad (a move that would also disrupt such cotton-growing friends as Mexico and Brazil). The French were talking of a military landing. All seemed to hope mightily for support from the U.S. Sixth Fleet, which was not promised...
...Defense Department announced that effective next July the U.S. Far East Command, in Tokyo since General Douglas MacArthur's day, will be absorbed by the Navy's Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Felix Stump, based in the Hawaiian Islands...
Another day of duty has come gently to a close for a big contingent of U.S. servicemen stationed in the Naples area. These forces have no arms, no combat equipment, no tactical function. From their balconies they sometimes see the visiting warships of the U.S. Sixth Fleet at their moorings in the broad, blue Bay of Naples. But Naples is not the Sixth Fleet's base. It is the home of NATO South, a paper command manned by a relative handful of officers and enlisted men whose presence has spawned a fabulous aggregation of 6,000 men, women...
...throne. Flanked by his uncle, Crown Prince Abdul Illah, little Feisal posed for an official photograph, looking delighted as a 21-year-old with his gleaming white uniform, the attention he was getting and the company he was keeping-the Duke of Edinburgh (caparisoned as an Admiral of the Fleet) and Queen Elizabeth II, a crownless standout amidst the profusion of feathers, ribbons, tassels and gold braid...
...minutes both teams milled about the Giants' bench, unminding the organist's emergency rendition of The Star-Spangled Banner. Then the game went on (Giants 8, Braves 6). Big Joe Adcock, fined $100 for his part in the skirmish, offered to shake hands and forget about it. Fleet-footed Ruben was set down for three days and fined $250-but that was the least of his worries. For as long as he stays in baseball, Ruben's ears will vibrate to the taunt...