Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cornell will be seeking to avenge last year's surprise defeat, when the Crimson upset the Big Red, 32 to 7, at Ithaca. The biggest gun in the Cornell arsenal will be the running of fleet halfback Bo Roberson, particularly around the ends. But Yovicsin, who watched Cornell's game last Saturday, does not class the Big Red as predominantly a running team. He points out that Tom Skypeck's passing gives the Ithacans an effective, balanced attack...
From somewhere southeast of Greenland came the crackle of an urgent radio message: "Being fired on by Orange surface raider. Inchcliffe Castle." With that alert from a famed but fictitious merchant vessel,* simulated hell broke loose in the North Atlantic. Out to punish the "aggressors," a six-nation Blue fleet totaling nearly 160 fighting ships began steaming toward Norway. In the Iceland-Faeroes gap, 36 Orange submarines, including the atom-powered 'Nautilus, lay in wait. The U.S. destroyer Charles R. Ware was "sunk"; a "torpedo" slowed down the carrier U.S.S. Intrepid, and H.M.S. Ark Royal had a hot time...
...Princess Maud, and dedicated, like her brother-the future George V-to the sea, the strapping, 6-ft.-3?-in. youngster married his love and embarked on a promising career in the Danish navy, achieving on his own merits the right to command any vessel in the fleet...
...PLANE ORDER will soon be awarded by United Air Lines, which will replace its short-haul fleet of 54 piston-engine Convairs with turboprops or jets at cost of about $150 million. Company is leaning toward Lockheed's 410-m.p.h. Electra turboprop...
...Russian navy has historically been handicapped by geography-graphically illustrated this summer when a cruiser and two destroyers had to make the long and circuitous passage via the Dardanelles, Gibraltar and the Danish narrows simply to transfer from the Black Sea to the Baltic fleet...