Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Vaccine. In an effort to calm the jumpy public, officials ordered that streets and storefronts in Rome and Naples be washed down with disinfectant -a strategy designed largely to provide psychological, not medical, relief. Vaccination centers, staffed in part by medics from the U.S. Sixth Fleet, managed to immunize at least 85% of Naples' 1,278,000 people against the disease...
...lures of presidential travel is the miracle of the machine itself. It is all so beautiful. From the fleet of jets and helicopters, through the limousines and boats, right down to the golf carts and snowmobiles, there is not another area of Government that works better...
...purse strings, but, especially in times of war and crisis, it was slow to deny a strong President his way, and was often ineffective even when it tried. In 1907, for instance, the Senate informed Teddy Roosevelt that he would get no cash to send the Great White Fleet round the world. Teddy said he would send it off anyway, gleefully remarking that he already had enough money to get the squadron as far as the Pacific. If the Senators wanted to be blamed for keeping 16 U.S. battleships out there forever, that was their lookout...
Sources spoke of a widening chasm splitting the Yard between University Hall--Dunlop's bailiwick--and Massachusetts Hall--where Bok's fleet of young vice presidents and special assistants is based...
...tune-up, zeroing in with the unfaltering regularity of a computerized missle, pursuing the ultimate target, the final goal, the quintessential achievement with the relentlessness of that missle, propelling up and down his 25-yard aquatic domain throughout the year, established himself as the premier swimmer in the Harvard fleet of standout mermen. Yntema, who ignored with an indifferent composure the frenetic excitement of Harvard's drive to a share of the Eastern League swimming title, eyeing with an unvarying determination his singular objective, refusing to be distracted for the vaguest moment by the hullabaloo swirling around him as Harvard...