Word: naval
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...southern frontier, has sent troops estimated to equal an army corps to "maneuver" near the Syrian bor der. Last week patrols exchanged shots for 45 minutes across the frontier. At week's end, to add to the tension, Egypt announced that "basic elements" of its air, sea and naval forces had arrived at the port of Latakia to bolster Syrian defenses...
...With a naval officer's knowledge of engineering and an amateur's enthusiasm for science, Philip has poked his head into factories and laboratories, has surprised and pleased workers and scientists with his knowledgeable questions (as the Queen stood by with often ill-concealed impatience). He speaks extemporaneously when he feels moved to it, does not hesitate to criticize, once told a group of industrialists tartly: "I'm afraid our nomen are a thousand times more harmful than the American yes-men. If we are to recover prosperity, we shall have to find ways of emancipating energy...
...spirited young towhead with lively blue eyes and a raucous manner. Philip spent his earliest years in a Paris crowded to the rafters with the relics of outmoded monarchies. Years later, as a dashing young British naval lieutenant in Mel bourne. Australia, he described himself good-humoredly as "a discredited Balkan prince of no particular merit or distinction." But as a small boy. the little Prince deeply resented the background that made him different from other people. Once when an-old friend of the family introduced him to a stranger as "Prince Philip, the grandson of a King of Greece...
...brought up as a proper Englishman, young Philip was shipped off to England to be reared by his mother's mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. She was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria and the widow of Prince Louis of Battenberg, one of England's greatest naval commanders, who had Anglicized his name to Mountbatten during World...
...Naval Research Laboratory announced later that "this effect can not be produced by atmospheric drag. It remains to experiment further with various hypotheses which may be expected to supply an explanation...