Word: chasing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...John Paul Jones, who, despite his bravery and gift for quick phrasemaking, had risen no higher than captain in the U.S. Navy. In return for an admiral's rank, Jones took command of a Russian sailing fleet composed of four battleships, eight frigates and assorted smaller craft that helped chase the Turks from the Black Sea. Unfortunately, his morals were nearly as bad as Catherine's, and rival admirals used a scandal about his deflowering a young Russian girl to chase...
Soviet warships and electronic intelligence trawlers stalk U.S., British and other Western fleets far from the shores of the Soviet Union. Soviet subs and destroyers shadow the U.S. carriers in the Mediterranean, keeping a watch offshore when the carriers go into port and taking up the chase again when they come out. A fleet of espionage ships keeps watch off U.S. Polaris submarine bases at such places as Holy Loch in Scotland, Rota in Spain and Charleston, S.C. Other snoopers sit off Seattle, New England, and Cape Kennedy, where the Soviets monitor the U.S. space shots...
...some occasions, the U.S. hunters pounce on the Soviet sub in what the Navy euphemistically calls "informal exercises." The object of the chase is to give the Soviet submarines a healthy respect for the capabilities of the U.S. Navy's ASW (Antisubmarine Warfare) forces. In a duel reminiscent of the fictional shoot-out in The Bedford Incident, a U.S. destroyer locks on the enemy boat and tracks his every move. Sometimes, to impress on the Soviets the futility of their plight, an American skipper will play The Volga Boatmen over and over again on his destroyer's underwater sound system...
...Economic Opportunity got addressed to "The Honorable Margaret G. Muskie, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. 20501." The last name indicated that it was meant for Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, but first name prevailed, and it went instead to Maine's senior Senator, Republican Margaret Chase Smith. "This surely must be the ultimate in the OEO's great effort for non-partisanship," Maggie told the Senate. "It not only blends a Republican Senator with a Democratic Senator, but the Senate with the House...
...partners are Lloyds Bank, the country's third largest, and smaller, Liverpool-based Martins Bank. With total deposits of $11.66 billion, the new bank would not only be Britain's biggest but would rank No. 4 worldwide, behind the U.S.'s Bank of America ($19 billion), Chase Manhattan ($15.76 billion) and First National City ($15.2). And it shapes up as an even more formidable financial force when the subsidiary operations of the three partners are included; Barclays Bank, for example, holds a 51% interest in far-flung Barclays Bank D.C.O. (for Dominion, Colonial & Overseas...