Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Treaty of Guarantee. The Turks, of course, violently and volubly disagree with Makarios' interpretation. In any case, Turkey would be unlikely to attempt an armed invasion of Cyprus unless the Turkish Cypriots were in danger of being wiped out. Moreover, last week elements of the U.S. Sixth Fleet had joined the Turkish navy in NATO maneuvers that seemed more for the purpose of keeping an eye on Turkey's intentions than for perfecting naval tactics...
Once, on a tour of the front lines with Frederika and General James Van Fleet, head of the U.S. military mission, Paul zigzagged his car down a rough country road that was under heavy Communist fire. "If your husband wasn't King," Van Fleet exploded to Frederika, "I'd tell him what a damn fool I think he is." When the war was finally won in 1949, Paul could take a large share of the credit for unifying Greece against the Reds...
Most of the Jewish refugees who went from Europe to Palestine after World War II were carried by a poorly equipped and hastily organized shipping fleet whose craft were bought, begged or borrowed wherever they could...
Last week, nearly 20 years after its founding as a refugee runner, ZIM added to its fleet a handsome new flagship. From St. Nazaire's Chantiers de 1'Atlantique, famed builder of the Normandie and France, it took delivery of the Shalom (Peace), a $20 million, 24,500-ton luxury liner that will make her maiden voyage to New York next month...
...archipelago. As Sao Jorge's 20,000 inhabitants fled into the streets, at least 1,200 of their stone and tile houses crumbled, and the local jailer saved the lives of his five prisoners by freeing them on parole shortly before the hoosegow collapsed. An eleven-ship rescue fleet evacuated 1,800 islanders, whose chief, and understandable, concern was the plight of their abandoned unmilked cows...