Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...games, the U.S. Navy just about always wins. That is part of a tradition that goes back more than 200 years to the day when John Paul Jones, with his ship ablaze and sinking beneath him, shouted to the apparently victorious British, "I have not yet begun to fight!" It is the gallant tradition of the Constitution ("... and many an eye has danced to see/That banner in the sky"), three times victorious over proud British frigates. Of the Olympia leading Commodore Dewey's fleet to the liberation of the Philippines, of the Yorktown and the Lexington grievously damaged as they...
...years later, in their ambitious OKEAN-75 naval exercise, the Soviet admirals demonstrated an ominous ability to coordinate global fleet operations, including drills in anticarrier, convoy and submarine tactics. Says Sir Peter Hill-Norton, admiral of the British fleet: "The U.S. had never previously faced a global threat to its sea-lane communications from a mix of subsurface, surface and maritime-air naval forces. This is a strategic change of kind, not of degree...
...some lobbying of his own against the Saudi planes deal. The spectacle of the Minister breakfasting privately with six Senators, five of them members of the Foreign Relations Committee, led New York Times Columnist James Reston to reflect ruefully: "There was a time in this capital when a British ambassador was recalled to London because he expressed a preference in a social gathering for one Presidential candidate over the other, but that was in the days when there were rules and even manners about what was permissible in the conduct of foreign relations...
...British Author Anthony Burgess (A Clockwork Orange, Beard's Roman Women), a longtime student of Italian affairs and sometime resident of Italy, offers his observations on the meaning of today 's terrorism and its implications for tomorrow...
...return Figaro's help in the second half of the play. That argument, however, would have little evidence to support it except the final chorus, which includes lines like, "But hear the thunder from the left, denouncing property as theft," and is sung to the tun of the British Labour Party's song ("The People's Flag is Deepest Red"). While there are other lines in the play that hint at a political interpretation--money breeds money, especially through corruption, we are told--these are generally passed over by the cast. And not surprisingly, either: it would take a true...