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Word: fleetly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Marina reflects an earlier, but no more graceful, state of Marathon's history. In a moldering trailer park a resident sits listlessly on top of a motorcycle, airing her black eye. Towers of lobster traps fill a fish yard. A dilapidated fish market offers the catch fresh from the fleet. The water in the harbor is a long way from crystalline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Florida: End of an Era | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...long imagined that a showdown in Central America might begin that way, and Washington was assembling a fleet of 39 warships for counteraction on the other side of the isthmus. On D day next Tuesday, 2,000 Marines will storm ashore from amphibious assault craft onto an isolated strip of sand near Puerto Castilla, on the Caribbean coast of Honduras. They will secure a beachhead for troops of the Army's 101st Airborne Division, who will be flown in by helicopter the following day. By the end of next week, about 10,000 American troops will have gone into action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Training Friends and Scaring Foes | 4/22/1985 | See Source »

Bluestonc, hitting at a .257 clip, has a triple and home run to her credit. "Hanya take her rips, and is very fast," Wentzell said. After missing the first contest of the year because of an injury, the fleet-footed Bluestone has become Harvard's starting center fielder and leadoff batter...

Author: By Jessica Dorman, | Title: Infield Leads Youthful Batswomen to 9-4 Mark | 4/20/1985 | See Source »

...glum urbanity through the Asian Gotterdammerung. He did not want to start a panic. Now, at 3:30 on the morning of Wednesday, April 30, 1975, President Ford flashed orders from the White House for Martin to board a helicopter on the embassy roof and get to the U.S. fleet in the South China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Viet Nam: A Bloody Rite of Passage | 4/15/1985 | See Source »

...Speed merchants like Lou Brock, Willie Wilson, Tim Raines and Rickey Henderson have changed the game Try to name the pair of players who have combined for the greatest number of stolen bases in a single season for the same team. Take five points for each half of the fleet-footed combination...

Author: By Nick Wurf and David L. Yermack, S | Title: The 1985 Sports Cube Baseball Quiz | 4/9/1985 | See Source »

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