Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lord Thomson of Fleet, Toronto-born owner of 125 newspapers and 150 magazines from the Austin Daily Herald to the Bangkok Post, has long sought one crowning jewel: a major London daily. The Times of London, a paper of rich tradition but modest circulation (286,000), has long needed one sterling resource: money. Last week the British press lord got together with the Establishment's most authoritative daily (motto: "For Top People") in a deal that brings new prestige to 72-year-old Thomson and fresh power to the 181 -year-old Times...
They did not. Hit by waves of Ma rines on the ground, pounded by the big guns of the U.S. Seventh Fleet off shore, the Reds held out for five days, then fled with their dead...
...this comes from a slight, softly spoken but highly persuasive man of 44. For the past 20 years, notables ranging from Fleet Admiral Chester Nimitz to the Sultan of Muscat and Oman have been talked into doing nice things for Wendell Phillips-like backing his archaeological expeditions and giving him oil concessions...
...political weakness of Chancellor Erhard should not deter the administration from delivering the coup d'grace to the Multilateral Fleet, and other related plans for nuclear sharing, during the German leader's visit this week. Despite the criticism this move will arouse in Germany, the U.S. must make clear its unwillingness to give Germany control over nuclear weapons. This position is essential to the success of negotiations for a non-proliferation treaty with the Soviet Union...
...admiral of the Sixth Fleet." "And I'm the King of Greece," responded Constantine...