Word: fleetly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Falklands war. More than 360 Argentine sailors perished in the attack. The documents contradicted the account of the Belgrano episode given at the time to Parliament by members of the Thatcher government. The material indicated, among other things, that the Belgrano was moving away from, not toward, the British fleet when it was torpedoed. In another recent Official Secrets Act case, Sarah Tisdall, a Foreign Office clerk, was sentenced to six months in jail for revealing to the Guardian the date of the scheduled arrival in Britain of new U.S. cruise missiles. She was released last July after serving only...
Webster, the best athlete of the five, runs with anyone else's fleet guards and eludes them. He barks out a play, passes and, a moment later, appears out of nowhere to can an unchallenged jump shot...
...same spot on a missile's skin for as long as seven seconds; during that time the missile might rise 20 miles. Because a ground- based laser could not send a beam around the curve of the earth, the generating apparatus would have to be carried aboard a fleet of satellites in low orbits. How many satellites would have to be sent aloft in order to keep some in range of Soviet missile-launching sites at all times is a subject of fierce debate among scientists; estimates have ranged from 100 to 1,600, which again means nobody really knows...
...rumors raced through the maze of jam-packed shanties like a burning fuse: a fleet of government vehicles had arrived to relocate all 60,000 residents of the settlement, and a squad of toughs had been brought in to add muscle to the operation. The rumors proved false, but by dawn, the men of Crossroads, a wretched black squatters' camp in the sand dunes just outside Cape Town, began blocking the roads around their shacks with makeshift barricades of logs, stones, oil drums, old tires and anything else they could find. Then they set the barriers ablaze...
...attend Cornell, but he says he simply "...liked Harvard more." It is ironic that Cornell's hockey establishment told Armstrong that it wasn't sure if he could skate well enough to play for the lumbering, board-rattling Big Red, and Armstrong is now a solid performer for the fleet Crimson...