Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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proposal, outlined in May by Under Secretary of State George Ball, for a fleet of 20 Polaris-armed surface ships manned by mixed allied crews. Britain's Tory government had succeeded in fending off any firm conclusions on the question. Would the Labor government now take a stand? That was a question put to Gordon Walker at a press conference following his talks with Johnson and Rusk...
...with Bonn. In practice, the entente has been mostly verbal: the Germans have refused to cooperate in joint weapons production, want no part of De Gaulle's incipient nuclear force, and have further provoked le grand Charles by enthusiastically endorsing U.S. plans for the mixed-manned NATO surface fleet, MLF, which Paris ridicules as the force de farce...
...food for starving Belgians. In London and Paris, he warned the French and English of likely U.S. indignation unless they eased their blockade to facilitate such shipments. After such tactics succeeded, Hoover supervised the shipment of a billion dollars worth of food and clothing to Belgium, directed a fleet of 60 cargo ships and 400 barges, crossed the mine-filled North Sea 40 times himself...
...past 23 years, the club has used the facilities of the M.I.T. pavilion, located downstream from the Harvard Bridge near the proposed construction site. Harvard's fleet of 20 dinghies is now stored on floating docks accessible only through the M.I.T. building...
...force it to spend hard currency to buy food. At this rate, it might take China between five and ten years to produce 30 bombs small enough to be lifted by an airplane or missile. But China has no long-range bombers or missiles, and to create the air fleet that would deliver the bombs would take $10 billion to $20 billion and between 15 and 20 years-unless outside help comes along...