Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...airlift of the Viet Nam war. Wave after wave of choppers-27 in all-droned onto an island in the mouth of the Mekong River 60 miles south of Saigon and disgorged 1,500 South Vietnamese marines, paratroopers and rangers. Simultaneously, in from the South China Sea swarmed an armada of junks and landing barges with another 1,000 men. On hand to observe the most ambitious strike against the Viet Cong in weeks were top brass, led by General Paul D. Harkins, commander of U.S. military forces in South Viet Nam, and Vietnamese Chief of Staff Major General...
...London Publisher Jonathan Cape for schoolchildren aged nine to 16. The other Jackdaws (named after the mimic bird) are equally graphic dossiers on Columbus' discovery of America and London's 17th century plague and fire. Soon to be published: more kits on the Magna Carta, the Armada, the Gunpowder Plot and the boy Shakespeare (timed to coincide with the bard's 400th anniversary...
Interpreting this as a news report, 20th century Scholar Leslie Hotson, wrote a whole book to prove that the "mortal moon" referred to the defeat of the Armada-thus putting the date of the sonnets back...
...sending a flotilla of Navy cruisers all over the Atlantic or Pacific to look for a rocket launched from Vandenberg or Canaveral. And finally, White Sands has more monitoring equipment planted within its 4,000-square-mile confines than could be carried by any Navy force short of an armada...
...Diego and out to sea. Instantly, much of Southern California is in a state of emergency. An aircraft carrier, a fire engine, a fleet of patrol boats, an LST, swarms of helicopters, jets and amphibian planes, an ambulance, police cars and a posse of excitable civilians mobilize into an armada of ineptitude. Finally Gig commandeers a blimp, has himself lowered on a life raft, grabs the flyaway as he floats...