Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SEDUCTION OF MiMi. Lina Wertmuller demonstrates that it is possible to make a movie about political ideas without being didactic. Wertmuller is fleet, funny and shrewd about the vagaries of human nature that we sometimes call politics...
However, former Chief of Military Intelligence Chaim Herzog, who represents a minority view, thinks that garrisoning U.S. soldiers in Israel or stationing the U.S. Sixth Fleet at Haifa "makes good sense." After all, he says, "Israel's own deterrent has not prevented the last two wars...
...became Navy Commissar in 1939 at the age of 37. Kuznetsov embarked on a massive cruiser and battleship building program and restored czarist-style discipline on shipboard, requiring officers to wear bone-handled swords. He mapped the naval strategy used against Finland in 1940, and later led his fleet against the Nazis. Demoted by a suspicious Stalin, he was reinstated in 1951 and finally fell from power in 1956, when Khrushchev decided that Kuznetsov's emphasis on a surface navy was out of date...
...store and stocked it with items priced just above wholesale levels. The bus makes ten stops a week in low-income neighborhoods and housing projects, and the police department sends along an escort for security. So promising is the innovation that there is already talk of outfitting a whole fleet of buses to bring the bacon home to Denver's elderly customers...
Ford's most important stop was with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev at an isolated compound of wooden and concrete dachas amid oak, birch and pine trees about 15 miles north of Vladivostok, home port for the Soviet Pacific fleet. Soon after reaching the camp by special train from the military airfield where Air Force One had landed, Ford and Brezhnev sat down in a conference room overlooking Amur Bay for talks that lasted all afternoon, into the evening and part of the next morning...