Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ashore in the Christian-controlled port of Jounieh, some nine miles north of Beirut. As soon as they established contact with the Lebanese garrison, both forces spread out and secured a landing area. A helicopter slowly whirred up from an Israeli cargo ship standing offshore, guarded by a small armada of missile ships. The helicopter, TIME has learned, brought to Jounieh a top Israeli official who spent the night in a series of secret conferences with various Lebanese leaders, then climbed back aboard his helicopter and flew out to sea again, just before dawn...
...most spectacular event was the gathering at New York of 212 sailing ships from 34 nations, including 16 of the world's largest windjammers. Led by the Coast Guard training ship Eagle, the armada glided past an honor guard of warships in the harbor and up the Hudson River. By Coast Guard estimate, some 30,000 small boats, ranging from 90-ft. yachts to dinghies and kayaks, maneuvered for a view in the crowded waters. Aboard the 80,000-ton aircraft carrier U.S.S. Forrestal, host ship for the nautical review, a radar operator stared at his screen in disbelief...
When Vice Admiral Richard Lord Howe's armada arrives in New York to reinforce Major General Sir William Howe, perhaps this week, all British military might in the New World will be commanded by two men who not only are brothers but are thought to be cousins of King George III (their grandmother, the Baroness Kielmansegge, was once a favorite mistress of George I). Despite this royal connection, the two brothers, whom the Crown has now charged with suppressing all rebellion in the Colonies, were until lately among the staunchest advocates of a reconciliation...
Which will it be? The British armada now invading New York must fill even the redoubtable General Washington with foreboding. If the Howe brothers succeed in driving Washington out of New York, they can probably seize the whole Hudson Valley and cut America in half. Will Americans then have the courage and stamina to fight on? Yet even an American triumph, as miraculous as it now seems to many skeptics, will bring new problems. Britain can survive without its American Colonies, but the outcome for America, despite its vast riches and its ingenious people, is by no means clear...
...armada steamed into Pittsburgh last week and won two of three games from the first-place Pirates. The Bull and the Phils have finally arrived, says Relief Pitcher Tug McGraw. Resurrecting a battle cry he sounded when the Mets charged to the 1973 pennant, he tells skeptics, "You gotta believe...