Word: armada
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...power. In the transition scene which takes the audience from Falstaff's death to the invasion of France, the Chorus makes a final appearance alone against the night sky, then recedes and fades as the movie takes over from him. In a flash of imagination, Britain's armada is disclosed through mist as the Chorus, already invisible, says: Follow, follow...
...just as the Allied column was making the entrance of Sunda Strait, the Perth, in the van, sighted two Jap ships. Soon more appeared-the Allied ships had run into a Jap invasion armada of transports and their escort. The battle-if anything so one-sided could be called a battle...
...runways and revetments of the Stillwater, Okla. airfield were crowded with 475 surplus bombers and fighters which once cost the U.S. $117,000,000. In Oklahoma City this week, chunky, cigar-smoking Paul Mantz of Los Angeles bought this mighty air armada, which included 228 Liberators and 78 Flying Fortresses. The price...
Englishmen admit that dirty weather won at least half the battle for England when Spain went down with the Armada in 1588. Dirty weather - under the guise of Kamikaze, the Divine Wind - saved Japan from defeat in 1274 when Kubla Khan's invasion boats were smashed to flotsam. Dirty weather postponed and al most disrupted World War II's Dday. In peace or war, weather is important, and these days of air travel reliable weather information is more important than ever before...
...even forgave Leicester his last, most presumptuous burst of ambition-his assumption of a princely title ("Excellency") when he led English troops into The Netherlands to fight the Spaniards. And when the Spanish Armada itself came beating up the Channel in 1588, Leicester was made commander of England's military forces. But this was his last service to his Queen. At the height of national rejoicing over the Armada's defeat, Leicester caught fever and died...