Word: fleetly
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...voice snapped: "Two years ago the whole Pacific Fleet was sent out for one woman flier [Amelia Earhart...
John Kennedy sidestepped: "It is much better to be on an American boat now than on a British boat, even if it was accompanied by the whole fleet...
...than on those who watched the fighting. Not maneuvers on the plains of Poland, but Moscow's opinions about them, about the German army, about German plans, were historically decisive; not the sinking of British freighters, but Mussolini's opinion as to the strength of the British fleet, forecast the future of war. Only 206,000,000 of Europe's 462,000,000 were officially at war last week.* But never had contestants played to a bigger gallery; never had gallery opinion meant so much...
...Duke of Windsor, as Admiral of the Fleet, Field Marshal, Marshal of the Royal Air Force. King George VI sent a personal emissary to Cannes to invite him and the woman he thought worth a throne to come home, sent a destroyer to a secret Channel port to fetch him. The Duke & Duchess of Kent offered him their town house. But this did not mean that the royal family planned to take the unroyal Duchess to its bosom...
...Clipper. Another was in Manhattan expansively buying U. S. instead of German automobiles and machinery. Six Japanese goodwill fliers spanned the U. S. The Japanese knew very well that if the Divine Gale hit the U. S. too hard, it might turn around and blow a not-so-divine fleet across the Pacific...