Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During predawn darkness in the mid-Pacific atomic proving grounds, the B-52 intercontinental jet bomber Barbara Grace roared upwards from Eniwetok Air Base, the big bomb in its belly. A fleet manned by 13,500 men stood 39 miles off target-Namu Atoll at the northwest edge of Bikini Atoll-while the big B-52 climbed to an altitude of 40,000 to 50,000 ft. Suddenly a fireball flared through the dark-silver-white, creamy-white, orange, red, boiling outward to a three-mile diameter at a speed of hundreds of miles per hour. Along the horizon spread...
...minutes and 43 seconds after the explosion, the shock wave rocked the fleet, roaring dully in men's eardrums for some 30 seconds. The mushroom rose high above dark bands of natural clouds, showing traces of brown and small brilliant pinpoints of light, tinctured cerise and pink by the dawn. Ten minutes later the cloud towered 80,000 to 90,000 ft. above the sea. In five more minutes it stood 100,000 ft. up. Flattening out, its spread covered 100 miles. Winds bore the fallout far from inhabited land, away across the empty ocean...
...would have no appreciable effect on Russia's real power-its massive air force and burgeoning submarine fleet...
...sprinting to Eliot Dining Hall, missed only first three or four minutes of the Mozart anniversary concert. All but one of the works paled beside the Haydn Mass, but worth hearing anyway. Fleet performances by Laurence Berman and Richard Friedberg of two four-hand piano works, almost as much fun to listen to as to play. Group of pieces by vocal nonet: opening canon pretty insecure, but singers got better as they went along, and the motet Ave Verum came off very well. The celebrated "Dissonant" Quartet suffered at the hands of the Cambridge Quartet from raggedness and faulty violin...
Thomas studied his lists and found his man. But he had to be certain. Almost casually, he canvassed the fleet, asked the admirals to name the five men whom they considered the best in their ranks. One name appeared on every list: Arleigh Burke, and with President Eisenhower's enthusiastic approval, Rear Admiral Burke was brought up past 92 seniors and made CNO. Despite his relative youth. Burke had all the qualifications...