Word: keeled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brimming with colorful costumes and extravagant, Hollywood-style Wild West shows, the film is a fictional embroidery of the romance and rivalry between Sharpshooter Annie Oakley and Crackshot Frank Butler (Broadway's Howard Keel). Annie, who can't miss anything she shoots at, eventually learns that You Can't Get a Man with a Gun. She gets him by learning how to shoot and miss...
Arleigh Burke's promotion was deserved; it was also wise. It firmed the revolters' increasing respect for "Fuzz" Sherman, who had been moved in over them to put the Navy back on an even keel. "This is a dark day for the Navy," one rebel had said when Sherman was appointed. Last week the same officer jerked his thumb in the direction of Sherman's office in the Pentagon, said: "That guy is going to town. The Navy hasn't seen anything like him in a long time...