Word: albion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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India's bustling Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru twirled by helicopter to Bombay on a sea hop from the British aircraft carrier Albion, maneuvering with Indian naval units. Before taking off from the Albion, Visitor Nehru looked a trifle apprehensive as a long-legged British admiral fussed with Nehru's "Mae West" lifejacket...
...need for Arts to look for the Machiavellian machinations of perfidious Albion in the erroneous diagnosis, because pathological anatomy was, at the time of Napoleon's death, only in the initial phase...
...remarkable piece of luck that the sea was calm and there were other boats within an hour's distance," Albion observed yesterday...
...lack of excitement aboard the Windrush was definitely the decisive factor in the rescue, Albion said. He praised the conduct of Capt. W. Wilson, "a competent officer who took control of the situation during the first critical moments" and prevented any possible panic...
...Albion said the large percentage of military personnel on board the Windrush probably accounted in part for the passengers' calm acceptance of orders...