Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about 70 destroyers, 25 submarines, four aircraft carriers and a highly efficient air force to screen and precede the dreadnoughts. Wherever Joe Richardson was, he was sure to be smoking his pipe, playing penny-a-point cribbage. And it was a safe bet that he was maneuvering his formidable armada at some place nearer his base at Pearl Harbor (see map, pp. 14-75) than to the South China Sea, where Japan was up to no good...
...going to get a lot more bombing. . . . It's the noise that frightens. . . . Don't be frightened. Be angry. It's a good cure." And Alfred Duff Cooper, the propaganda chief, quoted on the radio 42 lines of Poet Thomas Babington Macaulay's Armada, to remind the British how, with bonfires instead of blackout, they reacted to invasion once before...
Three enemies since William have threatened Britain seriously with invasion. The first, Philip II of Spain, built a great armada for the try, but it got wrecked by battle and storm near the British coasts. The second, Napoleon, threatened from Boulogne in 1805, but his inept Navy and his elaborate feint to draw the British Navy off to the West Indies failed miserably. The third, Hitler, last week put out preliminary feelers over southeast England. Some chickens, a pony, a cow and two heifers were the first victims...
Among important books received were a collection of proclamations related to the Spanish Armada, purchased specially and presented by Thomas W. Lamont '92, of New York...
Last week the world was made well aware that the storm-lashed British Empire had a man of valor at her helm. In Britain's blackest night since the Spanish Armada lay off her coast in 1588, Prime Minister Winston Churchill not only spoke words of courage but matched them with action. In less than seven days Great Britain's tireless old firebrand changed the character ot Allied warmaking from one of defend & wait to one of dare & strike, although the German onslaught made daring & striking seem more necessity than inspiration. The Prime Minister's week...