Word: loch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Butler agreed that the Tories would take into account whatever "Hydra-headed arrangements may emerge." Their tempers already short from the intraparty fight, leftist Labor M.P.s exploded last week when Prime Minister Harold Macmillan announced that Britain had agreed to allow the U.S. to use the port of Holy Loch on Scotland's Firth of Clyde as a base for Polaris submarines. In describing the agreement, Macmillan stretched things a bit by promising that the submarines would never fire their Polaris missiles without "fullest possible consultations." The U.S. State Department kept politely mum, but unnamed U.S. officials leaked...
...Arleigh Burke's plan to spell Kom-munism with a "K" in the future [April 4], in order to identify it with Khrushchev, needs additional strategic planning. For "Khrushchev" is not spelled in Russian with the "K" of Kommunism, but with an "X," pronounced like the "ch" in "Loch." (In fact, Khrushchev should not be referred to as "Mr. K." but rather...