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Word: fleetness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Right Honourable Gentleman, by Michael Dyne. They don't write plays like this any more. Thank goodness. Gentleman is a neo-relict from the mothballed fleet of melodramas that Shaw laid to rust when he attacked the theater of genteel piffle. Those bygone plays were Victorian clutched-handkerchief-and-smelling-salts operas. With more calculation than wit, Playwright Dyne drapes sex in bombazine, drops gossip in pear-shaped tones, dredges up his plot from an actual 1885 scandal, and clearly depends on fresh memories of the Profumo affair to titillate his audience and breathe secondhand life into his play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Mothball Melodrama | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...rent-a-car agencies. Here, some major changes are occurring. Chrysler has already won the lion's share of the Avis rental business from Ford, and Hertz by year's end will complete a switch that will make Ford rather than Chevrolet the predominant car in its fleet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The indirect Sell | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

...controlled most of Europe. At Brest, the French were assembling a formidable invasion force. In London, King George III, the Admiralty and No. 10 Downing Street did not worry much. What power could possibly breach "the nation's legendary wooden walls," the scourge of the oceans, the British fleet? Then, in the spring of 1797, the wooden walls began to come apart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Walls Shook | 10/29/1965 | See Source »

Brewster anticipates further expansion of the club fleet after the completion of the present program. The Crimson sailors hope to add four more Finns and an ocean-going yawl for a total of 26 boats...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yacht Club Will Build New Boathouse; Fund Drive for $500,000 is Launched | 10/27/1965 | See Source »

Senior Ben Emory skippered a crew of seven Harvard yachtsmen to a fifth place finish in the two-day McMillan Cup Regatta at Annapolis, Md., over the weekend. The Naval Academy invited ten colleges, including six from the Ivy League, to race its fleet of 44-foot yawls in the Regatta's 38th running...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yachtsmen Take Fifth In Races at Annapolis | 10/27/1965 | See Source »

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