Word: armadas
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Traveling around the world, orchestrating his vast air armada, Doole kept his airplanes busy. Under the cover of legitimate freight and charter services, Doole's airlines supplied a 30,000-man secret army in the mountains of Laos for a ten-year war against the Pathet Lao, dropped scores of agents into Red China, and helped stage an unsuccessful revolt in Indonesia. Not surprisingly, all this flying about aroused curiosity. In 1970 a New York Times reporter asked Doole if Air America had any connection with the CIA. "If 'someone out there' is behind all this," Doole airily replied...
...John Shults, director of DefenseDepartment contingency operations here, said asearch armada of helicopters, ships and planes hadspotted several pieces of debris floating in theAtlantic. The debris will be recovered and broughtto a hangar at nearby Patrick Air Force Base...
...funny thing happened on the way to Halley's comet last week. As an armada of Soviet, Japanese and European space probes hurtled through the cosmos toward their heralded meetings with the fabled comet next March, they were upstaged by a modest and almost archaic Ameri can spacecraft. The International Cometary Explorer whipped through the tail of an obscure apparition called Giacobini-Zinner, thereby becoming the first man-made object to encounter a comet...
...today), the first successful act of Protestant proselytization in the New World, and a girl, Virginia Dare (Dare is the name of the county today), was born, the first British foal in this land. From 1587 to 1590 the English were tied up with King Philip's Spanish Armada, and the colony assumed far less importance. When an expedition at last arrived to check on the settlement, it found no one home...
Groans and cries broke the momentary stillness, then sirens, as an armada of 19 rescue vehicles raced to the gory scene. "It was absolute chaos," said Police Officer Ruth Hoffman. "People were running and screaming in every direction. They couldn't find their friends or family." Paramedics treated victims where they fell; plasma bottles were hung from car antennas. Two dozen youthful Guardian Angels, a self-described anti-crime patrol, dressed in T shirts and red berets, helped restore order...