Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leader had the present and the past in mind. In 1949 Korea is menaced by Communist aggression. In 1592 Korea was menaced by Japanese aggression. Then, their valorous Admiral Yisunsin built the world's first armor-clad ships. Shaped like turtles, these craft rammed and destroyed an invasion armada under Japan's Hideyoshi...
...since the dread approach of the Spanish Armada had the people of Penzance seen so many massed ships. In one day, the blue waters of Mounts Bay were agitated by 60 British, French and Dutch warships; the air reverberated with 21-gun salutes. It was the start of week-long Western Union naval maneuvers known as Exercise Verity...
...false alarm from the fire-box next to the Lampoon building brought an eight-piece armada of the Cambridge Fire Department to the CRIMSON building at 14 Plympton Street at 8:40 p.m. last night in search of a major conflagration...
...Russians would note their arrival. If they were wise, the Russians would also note the ease with which this air armada was accommodated at British fields and fitted into British air operations. The R.A.F. and the U.S.A.F. are, in fact, essentially one air force. Their war-born union is the forerunner of an Atlantic system of military security...
...people against them. By the time they woke up to the seriousness of the war, says Author Miller, the French were involved and "the struggle became a war of survival against some of the most formidable odds faced by the island kingdom since the days of the Spanish Armada...