Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Riding at anchor six miles off Egypt's war-battered Port Said was a strange sight-the 18,300-ton U.S. helicopter carrier Iwo Jima. For nearly two decades, the warships of America's Sixth Fleet have been regarded by Egypt as unfriendly and unwanted. But now the U.S. Navy is playing a major role in helping the Egyptians clear the Suez Canal of the explosives and wreckage that have blocked it since the Six-Day War of 1967. TIME's Cairo Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn visited the Iwo Jima last week. His report...
...1950s we had become increasingly concerned about our navy, which consisted mostly of surface ships armed with outmoded artillery. Our military arranged for members of the leadership to inspect the Black Sea Fleet. I attended staff maneuvers on board a cruiser. One of our commanders gave a report on how "our" fleet had met and routed "the enemy" in the map exercises. He started rattling off how "our" fleet was sinking "enemy" ships right and left. He was terribly cocky. It made me sad to listen to him. Finally, I couldn't restrain myself any longer. I interrupted...
...would never uncover it. Both law and tradition conspire against serious, sustained investigative reporting in Britain. Coverage of any subject before a civil or criminal judge, for instance, is restricted to reporting what occurs in open court. If the targets of an expose bring libel actions against a newspaper-Fleet Street calls them "gagging writs"-all discussion of the case is normally suspended, at least until the suits are adjudicated. Editors who have complained at being muzzled have found little sympathy from officials. "You cannot muzzle a sheep," the late Labor Party firebrand Aneurin Bevan once cracked...
...Fleet Street's timidity seemed well intact recently when the pro-Tory Daily Mail held off publishing the results of its probe into a land-profiteering deal involving two associates of Labor Party leader Harold Wilson (TIME, April 15 and April 22) until after the February election. But editors, who had been increasingly restless while watching American journalists pursue Watergate vigorously, decided to be sheep no longer. On April 3, a month after Wilson returned to power as Prime Minister, the Mail and Daily Express both broke front-page stories on the transaction. Enraged, Wilson issued libel writs against...
Alan Bates makes a fine, fleet Butley. "Oh, if only they'd get on with it and let us teach!" he moans as he invokes the weight of spurious administrative duties to dodge yet another tutorial. He never allows the irony to become too heavy at moments like that; he always keeps quite the proper balance, making the ruse believable but also hypocritically funny. He is also a master of the throwaway and can brush off a fast line like a piece of dandruff off his rumpled suit. Confronted with a thick M.A. thesis entitled "Henry James...