Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...array were 1,213 vessels carrying 182,000 assault troops and their gear of war. Supporting the transport and LSTs was the largest fleet concentration in naval history-nearly 1,500 war vessels, more than 40 aircraft carriers, 18 battleships, scores of cruisers. On the outer ring of the armada, far beyond the men on the bridges of the lordly carriers, rode the destroyers, the "small boys" of the fleet, charged with forming a bristling picket fence around the other ships...
...armada of some 40 warships-U.S., British, Israeli, Greek, French and Italian -sped to the rescue, while new but lesser tremors continued to shake the islands. Said the commander of the British destroyer Daring: "We could feel the ship shaking, as if distant depth charges were being dropped." The U.S. cruiser Salem, flagship of the Sixth Fleet, put a team of doctors and medical aides ashore. They reported: "The silence is broken only by the cries of the injured, and the crunch beneath the shoes of the stretcher bearers." Said Earl Mountbattan of Burma, NATO Mediterranean commander: "Cephalonia looks...
Europe's national states developed intelligence agencies of increasing complexity. England's first secret service was organized by Sir Francis Walsingham, who kept Elizabeth I informed of the growth of the Spanish Armada, and who infiltrated the Jesuit underground in England with several agents. Walsingham employed a number of minor poets, and perhaps Playwright Christopher Marlowe as well, started English intelligence off on a high literary note that it has never entirely lost. Britain's literarily gifted secret agents have included Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, and Novelist Somerset Maugham...
...Well," he would say of the best of papers, "this isn't as bad as it could be"), he was happiest holding forth in his own parlor, laughing squeakily at his own jokes, acting out the great scenes of history (his most impressive performance: the routing of the Armada) and merrily stuffing his student guests with quantities of Mrs. Laprade's cookies, cakes and coffee...
...Southwest Ireland lie the six fog-bound Blasket Isles,* where 14 centuries ago Ireland's Celtic saints built Christian shrines of turf and mud to fend off pixies, pookas, hobgoblins and leprechauns. In 1588, a 1,000-ton Spanish galleon fleeing from the rout of the Spanish Armada piled up on the rocks of Great Blasket Island. Dozens of its crewmen struggled ashore, intermarried with the half-wild descendants of the "saints." From their union evolved the modern Blasket Islanders: tall, rawboned Celtic fishermen who speak little but Gaelic but have the jet black hair and dark eyes...