Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...military, Kathleen Byerly, a Navy lieutenant commander who is one of the many fast-rising women executives in the armed forces, became a top aide to the fleet's Pacific training commands...
...entirely overland through 5,450 miles of lines from the North Slope through Canada. Although the $9 billion Arctic Gas plan would cost about $1.2 billion more than the El Paso system, it would also apparently be simpler to operate. Unlike the El Paso proposal, it would require no fleet of special-purpose tankers, no liquefication and deliquefication plants and no complex reshuffling of regional gas supply patterns...
...American Keith Francis is a proven entity in the middle distance events. High school All-American Bill Martin has already raised collegiate eyebrows in the 1000-yard and mile runs. 1975 IC4A sprint champion Bob Hazard is still fleet of foot and could spell trouble for the Harvard dash duo of Todd Hooks and Mark McLean...
...little ship piloted by proud matrons going nowhere with a great show of dignity, dragging the water for warmth with elegant fishnets. We are the crew, and now and then we jump over the side, but only to repair the nets, seldom to swim. Our boat belongs to a fleet which still fancies it controls the ocean, but our nets are the old liberal language and theories, which do not catch what we need now to grow; they certainly don't help us to recognize a pervasive ruin which has come quietly down upon the vast suburban sprawl so many...
...safely aloft, the 1,047-ft. Kennedy got ready to position herself for the landing operation - "to seek the wind," in the Navy's phrase. All was well. There was nothing difficult about the maneuver; it had been performed thousands of times by units of the U.S. Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. The job of the six much smaller ships shepherding the Kennedy was to change position to accomodate the movements of the attack carrier. The Kennedy radioed her planned change of course to the U.S.S. Belknap, a 7,930-ton guided-missile cruiser that was some...