Word: flagship
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...test facility. Some 15,000 Frenchmen, supported by 40% of France's navy, have been busy building bunkers, laying airstrips, deepening Tahiti's harbor and extending its piers. Last week, the job completed on schedule, French Admiral Jean Lorain gave the order from aboard his flagship, the cruiser De Grasse, and an irregular black mushroom rose above Mururoa lagoon...
Morton May, called "Buster" by friends, oversees the chain from behind a modernistic slab desk on the eleventh floor of St. Louis' Famous-Barr store, the chain's flagship. Aware that the May Co. ten years ago showed signs of a slowdown under a 22-man board that included 11 members over 65, May continually recruits younger executives, schools them in the company's "fashion image." The curriculum is intended to teach them taste in merchandising in the same sense that May applies it to art collecting. May's aim is to make his stores leading...
Critic John Mason Brown, a cabin mate of Mac Bundy's aboard Kirk's flagship the Augusta during the Normandy landings, recalls that even then Mac was hardly the shy type. "On D-plus-one," said Brown, "I was summoned to the admiral's quarters and all the brass were having breakfast, including General Bradley. Mac was there too-the lowly lieutenant. Bradley was explaining some invasion move, and at one point he said, 'And then we go in here.' Mac said-in effect-'No we don't.' And Bradley accepted...
...protesting against "the obscene books which the Japanese had given the sailors." But after a desperate effort on both sides to understand each other, this first encounter between two great nations of the Pacific ended amicably. As Perry prepared to sail for home, the Japanese came out to his flagship with the last of their presents, three small spaniels for President Millard Fillmore. 'They now thrive in Washington," he reported later, not unlike Lyndon Johnson...
...Pentagon meanwhile worked out broader plans. The Joint Chiefs transferred an attack carrier group with the flagship Ranger from the First Fleet along the west coast of the U.S. into Sharp's Pacific area. Thailand agreed to accept two squadrons of U.S. Air Force fighter-bombers. More than 50 F-102s and B57 Canberra jet bombers took up residence at airfields at Danang, Saigon and Bienhoa in South Viet Nam. Near Bienhoa, a B57 crashed into the jungle with Capt. Fred C. Cutrer Jr. and Lieut. Leonard L. Kaster aboard. Hampered by Communist guerrillas, rescuers were unable to find...