Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...armada of private buses will begin rolling this morning in Boston and surrounding communities in an attempt to move commuters and shoppers stranded by the shutdown, and local officials have announced a variety of other contingency plans for dealing with the shutdown...
...year of captivity would virtually assure the President's victory. Still, a thin hint that Khomeini was seeking leverage or the White House orchestrating such a drama could send Carter packing. What if there were Iranian mines in the Strait of Hormuz and Carter dispatched a huge allied armada to clear them out? The experts quibble-maybe yes for Carter-on-the-bridge, maybe...
...Kirk Douglas) and his mates on the bridge (Martin Sheen, James Farentino, Ron O'Neal, et al.) get the mystery all sorted out, the Nimitz, in its full nuclear glory, finds itself in a position to intervene in history. Should it try to face down the entire Japanese armada steaming toward its rendezvous with infamy...
...about $165 billion) and second (after China) in men under arms (3,658,000). Nearly one out of every six soldiers on earth serves in the Soviet armed forces. Over the past 30 years, its navy has evolved from little more than a well-armed coast guard to an armada of global reach; it challenges the U.S. Seventh Fleet for command of the Indian and western Pacific oceans, and the South China Sea. Technicians of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces man command-and-control silos that can launch intercontinental ballistic missiles, some of them with as many as ten independently...
Under the fearsome Doge Enrico Dandolo, the armada sailed and, by April 1204, the greatest city in the world lay prostrate; in an act of unparalleled treachery, the most powerful Roman Catholic state in Italy had destroyed its religious rival, the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Tremendous booty was brought back from Constantinople to Venice. So thorough was the stripping that the soldiers even destroyed icons to get their gold leaf; 200 years later, when the last of the Byzantine emperors made a pathetic state visit to Venice, a shrewd onlooker noticed that the jewels in his crown were...