Word: hiding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work afloat. Worse yet, Napoleon had no understanding of sea power-let alone naval strategy and tactics. He frayed the already frazzled nerves of his naval commander in chief, the vacillating Villeneuve, with whimsically changing orders. For two years his captains were reduced to an exasperating game of maritime hide-and-seek until Horatio Viscount Nelson, Vice Admiral of the White, hero of Copenhagen and the Nile, caught Villeneuve outside Cadiz and began the Battle of Trafalgar...
...article of war, her men learned to hide her under water layers where sharp changes of temperature would foul enemy sonar; they practiced with the Navy's new, very low-frequency radio gear with which they could receive messages from 6,000 miles away without resurfacing. They became adept at using Polaris' SINS (Ships Inertial Navigation System), the mare's nest of gyros and electronic equipment that locates George Washington on a precise spot on the globe so that she can dial infinitely accurate directions into her missiles. There were star-tracking periscopes and radiometric sextants...
...long as Soviet secrecy continued, Nikita shook his fist and cried: "Impudence! Sheer impudence! There was a time-I remember it from my youth-when many criminals and other suspicious elements roamed the world. These people sometimes resorted to the following trick: a bandit with a small boy would hide under a bridge and wait for someone to cross it. The bandit would send the boy to the passerby, and the boy would say, 'Hello, mister, give me back my watch . . .' Then the armed bandit would appear, and tell the passerby: 'Why do you bully...
...news of even an air crash ever appears in the Soviet press unless the Kremlin wants it there; no stories of new weapons or defense plants are ever told by Moscow's radio commentators unless there is a propaganda motive. Secrecy not only enables Khrushchev & Co. to hide what they have but to hide what they don't have as well...
...Reason: a campaign by Union News Co.'s President Henry Garfinkle to hike newsstand prices of the city's dailies to make up the cost of a dealer strike last winter. "All I want is my profit," said Garfinkle. His equally profit-minded dealers followed orders to "hide" the papers, but chanted to passersby...