Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year of his reign, he has traveled more widely than old Ibn Saud ever did. One trip south, which took him over some 3,500 kilometers of flinty desert innocent of all roads, was an astonishing testimonial to the durability not only of the King himself but of his fleet of U.S. autos, including the trucks in which he carried heavy bags of silver coin for distribution along the way. "In our country," says one of his loyal retainers, "it is necessary that the people see the King. In the old days it was the tradition that the people come...
...with crusades against crime and political corruption, lured in more readers with some of the first serial comic strips (Moon Mullins, The Gumps, Little Orphan Annie) ever printed in a U.S. daily. They watched the paper's circulation and profits soar, bought vast Canadian pulp forests and a fleet of vessels that still supply the Trib with paper. But the cousins seldom saw eye to eye. Though he bitterly condemned the idle rich, Bertie reveled in his own aristocratic background; Patterson, a turtleneck sweater man at heart, rebelled against it, became an active Socialist. While he rode the streetcars...
...Congress, resigned three years later to become, at 40, Solicitor General of the U.S. In 1918 Woodrow Wilson appointed him Ambassador to Great Britain. He was so successful that, when he returned home in 1921, his ship was escorted from Southampton by the flagship of the British Battle Fleet and 40 destroyers...
Czar Nicholas II sent him on an official mission to buy airplanes for a Russian air corps, later named him air chief of his Black Sea fleet-events which, in the Soviet view, obviously should not have occurred. Said Dorozynski last week: "Tell them I am strong, healthy, cheerful-and smiling...
...jammed into the city's stadium to help doughty President Syngman Rhee celebrate his 80th birthday. On hand were General Maxwell D. Taylor, slated to become U.S. (and U.N.) supreme commander in the Far East this week, and Rhee's old friend, retired General James A. Van Fleet, who hailed Rhee as "the king of fighters . . . Tiger of Korea." Van Fleet told the Koreans that, as Eighth Army commander, he had submitted three battle plans to his superiors in 1953. Any one of the plans, said he, would have ensured victory in the Korean war; all were disapproved...