Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard swimming armada, combining the record-shattering performance of freshman Peter Tetlow with another overpowering team effort, shelled the Naval Academy, 80-33, Saturday afternoon in the Middies' own harbor...
During the first days of the war, the Soviets did nothing to urge moderation. Instead, they suggested that other Arab nations such as Morocco, Iraq and Algeria might find it advantageous to join the fight against Israel. They dispatched an armada of AN-12 and AN-22 air freighters carrying as much as 13,000 tons of war supplies to the Arab forces. At least 50,000 tons of supplies also arrived at the Arab ports of Alexandria, Tartus and Latakia aboard 18 Russian ships. Only when it appeared that the Israelis were on the verge of encircling and eliminating...
Patience is the prophet's greatest ally. In 1900, three years before the Wright brothers puttered over the sand at Kitty Hawk, Wells foretold the modern air armada in The Shape of Things to Come. On the eve of World War I, after reading a book about radium, he wrote The World Set Free, a novel that predicted the atomic bomb with such imaginative precision that the late physicist Leo Szilard acknowledged that the book had inspired the building of his own apparatus for starting chain reactions...
...determined to give fits to competitors whom he calls "the plastic pop-out people"-the mass producers of lightly built fiber-glass boats, few of which are suitable for long-term living aboard, to say nothing of ocean cruising. As testament to Vick's success, a small armada of West-sail cruisers is already fitting out for round-the-world voyaging...
Eleven years ago, there was not much of Caledonian to hate. Its entire fleet then consisted of a single rented DC-7C. Now it operates an armada of 33 jets that have been carrying more passengers in and out of Britain than once dominant BOAC. This year BOAC and British European Airways, both government-owned, merged to become British Airways, and made it clear from the start that the privately owned Caledonian's rapid intrusion into their business would not continue unchallenged. "We shall match them in everything they do," warns a British Airways-BOAC spokesman...