Word: fleets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...embargo on arms shipments to Greece. The island of Crete is being turned into a NATO nuclear base. Presently the U.S. is trying to secure permanent home port facilities in Piraeus and other major Greek ports. And with troubles in Turkey, Greece is becoming the whorehouse of the Sixth Fleet...
...other two-thirds of Harvard's lightweight fleet, the JV and freshman boats, fared better than the top eight. The JVs overwhelmed Columbia and Rutgers, coming in a full 15 seconds ahead of the nearest competitor. The freshmen, rowing in their first competitive race, won by a 10-second margin...
...nearly three years between Peking's hints of a desire for improved relations and the Nixon trip, the U.S. eased its economic blockade and withdrew almost all of its fleet from the Taiwan Straits area. The Chinese were preoccupied with their strained relations with the Soviet Union and Japan. With the visit of the U.S. ping pong team to China and the interview of Chairman Mao by Edgar Snow which indicated that China would welcome a visit by Nixon, Sino-American relations began to blossom furiously...
Northcliffe's own papers stopped printing his contributions. He cabled threats to fire everybody. One editor was told to "stop walking down Fleet Street in a tall hat." The Times, which he bought to save it from bankruptcy in 1908, put guards on its doors-against the proprietor. After he came home again to London, Northcliffe's four phones to his papers were cut off. Yet a Daily Mail night editor received his last whispered message to the paper -Northcliffe had found a fifth phone and was calling from under his wife's boudoir table...
...Daily Mail but not the Times. He took a fancy to Hitler and died of cirrhosis as the Luftwaffe's bombs fell on London. The family's impact has faded, but not Northcliffe's newspaper style -bright, brief, opinionated, superficial -which remains imprinted on Fleet Street. As Northcliffe decreed, once and for all: "Everything counts, nothing matters...