Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...practice stressed passing, both on offense and defense, as coach Carole Kleinfelder expects the Chiefs to be fleet of foot. "Springfield is fast, but they don't have the sticks, she said...
...question was almost unthinkable. Sixteen months ago, as Britain rocked with revelations that Sir Anthony Blunt, the Queen's own art curator, had been a Soviet agent, Writer Chapman Pincher, dean of Fleet Street's spy watchers, pondered in the Daily Express: "Was M15 Chief Hollis linked with the KGB?" Nobody pressed for an answer, and no wonder. Sir Roger Hollis had spent nine cold-war years as D.G., or director general of M15, Britain's counterintelligence service, a civil servant so umbrous that his name was never publicly mentioned. After his retirement in 1965 Hollis...
...four-star admiral, McCain served as a submarine commander during World War II and was appointed commander of naval services in Europe in 1967. McCain, who retired in 1972, maintained that the U.S. was engaged in a "wet war" for naval superiority with the Soviet Union, whose growing fleet of submarines posed "a direct threat to our free use of the oceans of the world...
...Hemingway's code of conquest and survival was on the continent before the white man. His best stories focused a nostalgia for the New World's uncorrupted bounty. The letters, too, are full of firm trout tricked from pure streams, plump birds hosed out of clear skies, fleet beasts felled by one clean shot and blank slopes marked by the signature of a lone skier. There are also enemies worthy of bashing and friends to be gathered and embraced...
Morris is unsure who his most productive players at the plate will be, but he is certain that fleet centerfielder Ellen "Sprout" Jakovie will "make things happen offensively...