Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sale in Luanda (pop. 400,000) only three days a week. Long lines form for everything from bread and cigarettes to beer and bottled cooking gas. Three of every four buses in Luanda have been sidelined for lack of spare parts, and only about 20 taxis (of a prewar fleet of 600) are still operating...
...Antony and Cleopatra cannot bear. Their love has grafted each in the other's heart and mind so that when they are forced apart, it is a semi-suicide. She wonders, in rapt preoccupation, whether he is sitting, or standing, or riding his horse. When he orders his fleet to turn and follow her deserting ships in the sea battle that destroys his fortunes against Octavius Caesar, it is not that he has totally lost valor, but that being anywhere but with her is the severest loss he can contemplate. When her eyes water in remorse, he chides...
...sure, there have been attempts in the past to rectify the situation. Apart from those that suggested sheer violence, the only sensible approach was to bring in a fleet of London taxis, which are wondrously compact and comfortable, can turn on a tuppence, and come equipped with diesel engines and drivers who say "Sir," "Madam," and "Thank you." Some New York operators experimented with a London cab in Manhattan eight years ago, but rejected it when they discovered that the passengers enjoyed the ride...
Died. Admiral Royal Eason Ingersoll, 92, commander in chief of the Atlantic Fleet during World War II from 1942-44; in Bethesda, Md. A spare, taciturn man, Ingersoll directed the fight against German U-boats and oversaw the escort of U.S. troops and supplies crossing the battle-soaked Atlantic. Later, as commander of the Western Sea Frontier, he poured men and materiel into the fight against Japan...
...Crimson squad started terribly Sunday, after getting only one hour of practice in the King's Point 420's Saturday. By Tuesday, however, the skippering of Tom Repps and Tony Leggett moved the Crimson squad from 14th to eighth in the 15-boat fleet before heading back to Cambridge...