Word: armada
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defendants are Uni Oil Inc. of Texas and three of its executives: President Thomas M. Hajecate, his father Thomas H. Hajecate, who is secretary-treasurer of the company, and Vice President Charles Akin. Charges were also filed against James Fisher, a former Uni vice president and part owner of Armada Oil Co., as well as against Ball Marketing Enterprise of Lafayette, La., and one of its oil brokers, Charles Goss. All who have commented have said they will plead not guilty. If convicted, they could be sentenced to as much as 20 years in prison...
Johns Hopkins, the two-time Division III defending national champion, actually has a very respectable team, but cannot hope to keep pace with the awesome Crimson armada...
This is the Colombian Connection, a network of farmers, smugglers, brokers and fixers that extends more than 5,000 miles from Bogota to the great markets of New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. It owns an armada of ships and planes, and it has recruited an army of bush pilots, seamen, electronics experts, roustabouts and cutthroats. Though the Mafia is starting to move in on this stream of gold, the connection is still operated mainly by Colombians (some 70,000 families are believed to be involved), most of them novices or small-time entrepreneurs. It is by far the largest...
...bustle of a wartime staff room. Poring over charts and maps, officials plot their strategy, barking orders into a battery of phones. On the seas and in the skies, the enemy is tracked by an armada of instrument-laden ships, balloons and buoys, aircraft and weather satellites that feeds intelligence into a support force of computers. But this is a bloodless war. The only object is to study the foe: Asia's mighty monsoon, the great seasonal winds that annually bring life or death to hundreds of millions of people...
...yesterday, Jack. Yesterday the Crimson armada was sheer ruthless efficiency. Clean precision. The Dallas Cowboys. Death by the machine...