Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This would buy two more attack submarines, one more destroyer armed with the devastatingly accurate AEGIS guided-missile weapons system, a landing ship for the Marines and two oilers. The oiler shortage typifies the Navy's plight. While at least 21 oilers are needed to keep the fleet steaming, only 16 are available and ten of these were commissioned before the end of World War II. Mines are also scarce, and torpedo stockpiles are so low that there are not even enough to arm all U.S. attack subs for two patrols...
...better luck closer to home, in the jokey, hokey bacchanal of The Greeks Don't Want No Freaks or the sly ironies of The Disco Strangler (a collaboration with String Player Don Felder) and King of Hollywood, in which a hard-hustling mogul is nailed neatly in two fleet lines: "He's just another power junky/ Just another silk-scarf monkey...
...friends with a minimum investment. In Grenada, for example, notes one businessman, "the Cubans made an excellent choice of aid when they gave the island its first fishing trawler"-a 65-ft. vessel that will greatly augment the tiny catch made by the country's fleet of small, open fishing boats. In an interview with TIME, Grenada's Socialist Prime Minister Maurice Bishop claimed that "one of the reasons Cubans are in Grenada is because the Americans aren't." He said it took ten days after the coup for U.S. Ambassador Frank Ortiz to assure him that...
...West Germany's sleek Porsche 928, priced at $33,220 and voted 1978 Car of the Year by European auto writers, is bought mainly by dentists (the country's highest income group), business advisers, doctors, tax consultants and real estate dealers. (The world's largest Porsche fleet-4,000-is in Los Angeles...
Although Northeastern's Bickford once again coasted to victory, the real race occurred behind him. Even before the gun, it began as a contest between the fleet-footed Crimson tracksters and the scrappy, tough Terriers, and the two swuads dueled over the entirety of the 10,000 meter course...