Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salisbury Daily News, owned by British Newspaper Tycoon Lord Thomson of Fleet, was banned last week for supporting African aspirations, despite a protest demonstration by 100 white and non-white students before the Parliament building. The Salisbury suburb of Highfield, where rival African parties have been feuding violently for months, was put in a state of emergency and sealed off by soldiers and police...
...what skills they can contribute and take an aptitude test (two out of three fail). In exchange for sharing half of a three-room suite, each student puts in twelve hours a week on such jobs as washing windows, making minor repairs, and tuning up Ryan's fleet of five cars and a truck. Estate employees rank in the top 10% of their academic class. Currently they include Mounir Khoury from Jordan, a former professional chef now a pre-med student at San Fernando Valley State College; Allen Shores, a public administration major at U.C.L.A. who plans five parties...
...subordinate commanders to use any weapons necessary" in the Gulf of Tonkin fortnight ago. "Do you mean that the President has given field commanders the right to use any weapons, including atomic weapons?" asked a reporter. "I would suggest you read his admonition to the commander of the Seventh Fleet in which he said to use any weapons," replied Barry. "Now I think I know what he means, but I also know what I meant when I said that the supreme commander of NATO should have a little more say-so in the choice of tactical nuclear weapons...
...lack. It returned him an estimated million dollars a year over the past decade and permitted the luxury of a London town house just across the road from Buckingham Palace, a vast apartment by the sea at Sandwich, a Jamaican retreat called Goldeneye, and comfortable, carpeted offices just off Fleet Street...
...once entertained a delegation of visiting New York police by stalking into a tavern, miter and all, and ordering a round of beer for his guests; another time, after blessing the fishing fleet at Gloucester, he vaulted aboard one ship and asked the captain to sail him home to Boston. At amusement parks he buys candy kisses for nuns and shamelessly employs a rather widely used gag as he tells them that "they're the only kisses you'll ever get." Hardly a day goes by that Boston Catholics can pick up their papers without seeing...