Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whales off Peru for a few months before steaming south for the rich January-May bluefin whaling in the antarctic. The factory-ship and its 15 catchers were barely through the Panama Canal when Peru menacingly announced that she was prepared to defend her "ichthyological richnesses" from the "pirate armada" with force. An Onassis lawyer hurried to Lima to "fix things up"; at the same time Onassis took out a $15 million anti-confiscation insurance policy through Lloyd's of London. A mysterious silence followed-until Onassis' Hamburg agent leaked the fact that the ships were whaling unmolested...
...shortly before seven a.m.! We lived it with you, Mrs. Lightfoote. And you may be sure that the fruits and flowers now arriving daily at your bedside from all parts of Britain are but a small measure of our admiration. Yours is the spirit which routed that horrid old Armada. And -who knows?-the psychiatrists may soon have you on your feet again. Here's hoping!" "A little bird tells me that Katherine Hepburn, filming over here, walked alone in the Park one day last week-unnoticed! The explanation is simple. It had been rumoured that two Very Important...
...armada of fifteen crews from Boston University, Harvard, and M.I.T. take to the Charles River Basin this afternoon beginning at 3 P.M. for the mythical Championship of the River. Approximately 2,000 spectators, quietly lubricating themselves for the All-College Weekend, are expected to watch the Crimson varsity, J.V. and freshman heavy crews in their one and only home appearance this spring. Following this afternoon's command performance, the three heavy boats head south and west for the rest of the rowing season...
...very high: about 3,500 killed, between 4,000 and 9,000-wounded. They have cracked the northern rim, but have not broken the main defenses of Dienbienphu. They have knocked out Dienbienphu's two airstrips, but supplies pour in and wounded move out in a motley armada of helicopters and transports that parachute their cargoes. For the French, the cost is not small - about 1,200 killed, wounded or missing - and the respite in infantry fighting brings no respite from the nerve-racking devil's clockwork of the Red artillerymen...
...embassy, they found on guard rows of red-capped Policía Armada, the heavy-handed troopers Franco employs to keep order in the cities. Sure of official sanction, the students surged on. The jittery police lost their heads. Brandishing heavy rubber truncheons, they laid open heads, clubbed shoulders, thumped backs. Amazed, then aroused, the students fought back with bricks, branches torn from trees, even shoes snatched off their own feet. Bystanders joined in, seizing the chance to strike at the hated Policia Armada. For two hours the fight raged, subsiding on one street corner to flare up on another...