Word: naval
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that aim-indeed, it is a basic premise of U.S. strategy. But Reagan went on to suggest using the cruise missile to counter Soviet tanks. Still under development, the cruise missile is no battlefield weapon; armed with a nuclear or conventional warhead, it will be launched from aircraft or naval vessels against strategic targets up to 2,000 miles away...
...thinks the U.S. defense budget could be cut by about $7 billion a year, chiefly through eliminating bureaucratic waste and some expensive weapons systems, such as the B-1 bomber. But, because he believes that the U.S. fleet is becoming inferior to Russia's, he would accelerate naval shipbuilding, including the nuclear, missile-firing Trident submarine...
...cable inside." Trying to reassure an audience in Green Bay, Wis., that he was not dangerously ambitious, Carter pointed out that he had not always wanted to be President. Said he, in all seriousness: "When I was at Annapolis, the only thing I wanted to be was Chief of Naval Operations." Later, as a junior officer aboard the submarine Pomfret, he doggedly refused to be kept from his duties by seasickness. Recalls Warren Colegrove, who was the ship's engineering officer: "He'd take his [vomit] bucket with him to the bridge. He was a gutsy...
...Annapolis and Amherst contingents battled it out for the runner-up honors, with the yellow and blue garbed Naval fleet eventually outlasting the Berkshire boatsters, but both crews finished nearly three lengths behind Harvard's wake. The Crimson's winning time was just two-tenths of a second under the six-minute mark...
...stickmen open fire on Naval Academy Prep on Saturday...