Word: fleetingly
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...West Germany. The book ends with a catalogue of boats that took part-square-riggers with skyscrapers of sail, brigantines, Dutch gaff cutters, topsail schooners. In between there is nothing but glorious pictures of tall ships, webbed traceries of cordage, acre upon acre of canvas, panoramas showing the vast fleet dotting troubled waters, symmetrical silhouettes of crews aloft on yardarms, looking like Chinese gymnasts, bringing in sail. The same great ships appear again and again, but no matter-in this case familiarity breeds content. For sailors this is the nonbook of the year...
...students denounced the economic policies of the junta which had led to the revaluation of the drachma, 30% inflation in basic foodstuffs, and the use of the Greek government's much needed stores of petroleum for the Athens-based American Sixth Fleet...
...short term, at least-by opposing the coup. The Administration had been pleased by Papadopoulos' recent promises of free elections, and by his acceptance in principle of the next phase of the U.S. Navy's plans to use Greece as a "home port" for the Sixth Fleet. Whether the new junta will go along with the plan is not yet known, though Androutsopoulos has already made it clear that Greece will remain in NATO...
...text mainly consists of lines from the song's forgettable and often unsingable lyrics. Spier first switches back and forth from the British fleet to the American defenders, then moves on to scenes from American history or contemporary life to illustrate the closing stanzas. Spier's pictures bear long study and show everything from the new Congreve rockets used in the attack, to gunners' swabs, sextants, belaying pins and the running rigging of a fleet of British...
Also, New Times is not using its people well--two of its best, Studs Terkel and Nicholas von Hoffman, have yet to be heard from, while Bob Greene, an insignificant Chicago columnist, has already weighed in three times. The fleet of local correspondents does not seem to have been used much yet either, and they are potentially the magazine's greatest strength...