Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whether it was to be a truce or more fighting, even the top men in the U.N. command did not seem to know. General James A. Van Fleet guessed aloud that the Communists would not dare to try an offensive this spring. If they did, said he, his forces could stop them: "It would be a good thing if we could get those people out of their foxholes and dugouts, to mow them down the way we did last April and May." But actually, the U.N. command was not so bold. To break through the enemy successfully, they said, they...
...Mick" Carney's fleet, the warships of four nations, was bobbing in Naples harbor after a week of brisk maneuvers during which former allies and enemies had worked together in smooth efficiency over the western Mediterranean. One incident had marred the maneuvers. When a British commander wanted an Italian commander to stop sending messages in code, he sent word: "Use plain language." The Italian thought his idiom was being criticized, and froze into sulky silence. Carney ruled that henceforth the proper NATO instruction should be "Do not encode...
...Nomura, Japan's special "peace envoy" in Washington on Pearl Harbor Day, showed up at the U.S. naval base at Yokosuka to attend a ceremony aboard the battleship Wisconsin. He came to see his old friend, Vice Admiral Robert P. Briscoe, take over command of the U.S. Seventh Fleet from Vice Admiral Harold M. Martin. Said Nomura, who is still on the purge list: "I have always admired the American Navy. It was wonderful talking to old friends about old times." He and friends had a chance to talk about new times too. With Japan's peace treaty...
...climbing again to 800,000. Men, women & children worked side by side in the streets hauling away rubble in improvised rattan sledges. Streetcars, blistered, bullet-pocked and windowless, picked their way cautiously along the city's network of trolley tracks; 15 of Seoul's prewar fleet of 150 buses wheezed and coughed along cratered streets. Two brand-new fire engines had just been delivered from Japan...
...case in the battle of Jutland during the first world war, it is hard to tell just who won. It will actually be impossible to tell who won until the admirals of the victorious fleet show their true colors by either effecting or obstructing sports de-emphasis. In the case of the Ivy League presidents, most of whom are more concerned with education than with winning teams--either athletic or political--chances are good that they will actually keep their institutions headed on the path of amateurism. The eight-point program they have set forth is a good...