Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Beatles' first LP." It was just in time, however, for Clive James, who arrived in London from Australia in 1962 seeking literary fame, the socialist millennium, bohemian good times and the love of beautiful women, not necessarily in that order. Eventually James would become a successful Fleet Street journalist-critic and a popular panelist on British TV. But for now his ambition was "to take a lowpaying menial job during the day and compose poetic masterpieces at night," and in between to begin swinging with...
...more than half of it will be with Pacific Rim countries. Moreover, continued subsidies of U.S. farm exports, which take sales from Australia and Thailand, have outraged friends in the region. The biggest concern, though, is the growing potential for a military confrontation in the Pacific. The U.S. Pacific Fleet now squares off against a Soviet force that is the largest of Moscow's four naval units. From headquarters in Vladivostok, the Soviet Pacific Fleet covers a 1,200-mile maritime zone that stretches south from the Kamchatka Peninsula to Viet Nam's Cam Ranh Bay, the vast airfield...
Amid the increasingly furious finger pointing and accusations last week, a picture began to emerge of the support network behind the Hasenfus flight and the well-organized program of contra supply missions. The downed C-123K was part of a fleet of aging cargo planes being used to ferry weapons and materiel to the contras mainly from Ilopango and Aguacate air base in Honduras. The contras reportedly bought the equipment and paid the crews in part with private funds and money borrowed from American and other banks, using as collateral a $100 million aid package that Congress released late last...
...scoop in what is left. If this were a democratic game, the boats on the line would drop back with their fill after a set time, allowing those behind a chance, but it is not, and anyway, shrimpers, like hawks, do not share. Thus feelings are bitter within the fleet, and the bitterness is exacerbated by a parochial rivalry between the shrimpers from Cameron, the port town nearest the Firing Line, and the shrimpers from the lakes, like Captain Cretini...
...graceful moves on the football field leave the opposition flat-footed. Now Chicago Bear Willie Gault has pirouetted from the end zone to the ballet | world. Trading cleats and pads for leotards and slippers, the fleet wide receiver leaped to new heights last week with a troupe of inner-city youths and the Chicago City Ballet in a benefit for the Better Boys Foundation. Gault, 26, put in five practice sessions (but no chalk talk) for his number to the music of Webern. He was partnered by Ballerina Maria Terezia Balogh, whom he lifted with the greatest of ease before...