Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During World War II Burr served as a naval air combat intelligence officer...
Eight hundred students taking part in the hour-long parade and inspection ceremonies were reviewed by a special committee, consisting of three high ranking Army and Navy officers and several members of the Board of Overseers. Sixteen members of the Overseers' Visiting Committee to the Military, Naval, and Air Science Departments were also present...
Said Republican Leader Charles Hal-leek: "If one of our naval vessels ... or a squadron of our planes were attacked over the high seas, under your amendment they could not even fire back until Congress decided to do something about it." Massachusetts' Republican Congressman Richard Wigglesworth said that the amendment could be construed "as an invitation to further aggression in Indo-China." Said Ohio's John Vorys, the House's Republican foreign-policy leader: "Telegraphing your punch is bad, but telegraphing your enemy that you are not going to punch is worse ... I suggest that in this...
...connecting the heights with the British base in Balaclava and the fleet in the bay. Back of the Woronzoff Road was a valley. On either side and at its far end stood strong Russian batteries. This was bad enough, but when the Russians also attempted to drag some British naval guns away from their position overlooking the road, Lord Raglan became worried, because captured guns were proof of victory. Quickly the order was scribbled: "Lord Raglan wishes the cavalry to advance rapidly to the front-follow the enemy and try to prevent the enemy carrying away the guns...
Admiral Robert B. Carney, Chief of Naval Operations, took a flyer into the realm of psychological warfare and gave a Chicago audience his prescription for U.S. relations with oppressed millions behind the Iron Curtain. As authors of the greatest of all revolutions, Carney suggested, Americans are singularly well equipped to preach revolt. Asked the admiral: "Why can't we be the salesmen of human revolt, 'which demonstratively has produced freedom for the individual and . . . standards of life heretofore unknown...