Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tried to crawl from under his burden of debts by taking a job as commissary for the Spanish Armada, only to run into more trouble. When he commandeered church property, he was excommunicated. When the government found discrepancies in his accounts, he was thrown into jail. Out of jail at last, he went ahead with his writing. Finally, at 57, he published Part I of the comic, compassionate masterpiece that was to win him little of the fortune, but all of the glory he thirsted...
Free Boat Ride. In the harbor meanwhile, the loading booms creaked and strained from dock to deck, and LCVPs (Landing Craft-"Vehicle, Personnel) churned busily from the beach out to an armada of U.S. Navy ships waiting to take out the troops. The South Korean navy sent one LST in to the beach to pick up several thousand R.O.K. troops, nurses and South Korean civilians. The Koreans wasted no time getting aboard. When they finally stopped getting aboard, the LST was crammed to the gunwales with over 4,000 passengers, including a fair share of the remaining civilian population...
...first time it looked as if most of the 20,000 would get through. A vast armada of ships-freighters, transports, LSTs, carriers and other warships of the Seventh Fleet-were waiting for them. Vice Admiral Charles T. Joy, Far East naval commander, held a secret conference on his flagship with the X Corps' Major General Edward M. Almond and other brass. Joy said the Navy was ready for "any eventuality"-which was official doubletalk for evacuation...
...notoriously inefficient, but since Governments always are there is no reason for astonishment or indignation . . .' Having completed this catalogue of disaster there is a certain satisfaction in [concluding] 'it might be worse'-and since it is a phrase which . . . has served very well from the Spanish Armada to the London blitz we are not likely to abandon...
Over Korea the SCAP joined an armada of 80 C119s and 40 C-47s which carried the men and equipment of the 11th Airborne Division's 187th Regiment. From Seoul's Kimpo Airport the airborne task force flew deep into North Korea. There, while MacArthur's plane circled overhead, one battalion of paratroopers dropped on Sukchon, 26 miles northwest of Pyongyang, another battalion at Sunchon, 28 miles northeast of Pyongyang...