Word: battleship
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Extréme Orient in 1910. Involved in nationalist agitation from his youth, he found it prudent to get out of the country for a while and moved to France. In 1919, as a draftee in the French navy, Thang joined a Communist-led mutiny when his battleship sailed to the Black Sea port of Sevastopol with other Allied vessels in an effort to overthrow the Bolshevik regime. He was expelled from the service and returned to Indo-China, where in 1929 he was sent to the penal colony at Poulo Condore for seditious activity. Not until...
...Work will begin next January, and the first tenants are expected to move in in early 1971. Plans call for installing floors either by pour ing cement into forms at every level or by affixing prefabricated circles. Jackhammers will cut windows and outside balcony spaces in the battleship-gray walls, which are eight inches thick, and elevators will be installed inside. On completion, the silos will have 132 circular apartments, including 84 split-levels, each 23 feet in diameter. In addition, there will be 24 rectangular apartments in the adjoining grain elevator. Rents, including utilities and furnishings (even the beds...
...force included three attack aircraft carriers and an anti-submarine aircraft carrier, with a total of more than 200 planes, three cruisers, 22 destroyers, at least five submarines, five or six supply ships and, briefly, U.S.S. New Jersey, the world's only operative battleship. A perplexing question is why so formidable a fleet was needed...
...Your article reminded me of an anecdote related by my father, who was born near Abilene, Kans., in 1888. During the patriotic fervor following the blowing up of the battleship Maine in 1898, my father and his contemporaries frequently played soldier. They refused to let Ike Eisenhower play. He was too little...
...selling it to friends as Spanish fly, he helped finance a small scholarship fund for Mexican students at the University of California. During the Pueblo crisis, when Governor Ronald Reagan was urging a 24-hour ultimatum to the North Koreans, Newhall offered to finance the deployment of a battleship -on the sole condition that the Governor be in the landing party...