Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said at his 1949 inauguration, "to muster the democratic ranks of American scientists into invincible battalions. We must again be able to beat the enemy to the draw as we did in developing the atomic bomb. Our schools of science and engineering, if they are strong, are a powerful fleet-in-being, a striking force that can be thrown instantly into action if needed...
...class the stars fell on," it produced 58 general officers from 164 graduates, including Omar Bradley (kept away from homecoming by a case of flu), James Van Fleet and George Stratemeyer...
...firmly under the control of Marshal Malinovsky, immediately took on a more ominous tone. Red Star, the army newspaper, told the sad tale of one Velikolug who was so puffed up by a successful military career that he committed "serious blunders for which he received strict party punishment." Soviet Fleet, in a similar attack on "swaggering military leaders,'' declared that "decisive condemnation should be made of efforts to minimize the role of political organs in the life of the armed forces." Pointedly, the navy publication added: "No matter what a Communist's rank, he not only...
Unknown Incident. All week long, Russia's stooges in the Syrian government obligingly kept up a drumfire of public accusations against Turkey and the U.S. Chief of Staff Afif Bizri charged that Turkish and U.S. planes from the Sixth Fleet were violating Syrian air space, and the Damascus press claimed that the planes had swept in over northern border towns at rooftop level to terrorize the population. Next day newsmen asked the Foreign Ministry's official spokesman if Syria planned a diplomatic protest. Astonished, the official asked who had reported the incident, was told Bizri had. "Well, that...
...nation's 77.9 million drivers, it was the week to do their Christmas window-shopping early. Detroit rolled its 1958 models and began to croon its annual siren sales song to the U.S. public. Out came a whole fleet of new cars in a blizzard of announcements promising "jet intakes," "bubble windshields," "flight-pitch transmissions," "Marauder engines"-even an ICBM look. There were downswept snouts, upswept fins and outswept taillights ; all were ablaze with dazzling colors and gleaming chrome brighter than any Christmas tree. Sighed a Detroit secretary, rapturously examining a trailerload of new 1958s; "Chrome is my favorite...