Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...splendor of the pageantry, however, the ceremony never lost a sense of down-home majesty, best caught perhaps by the four tiny bridesmaids dressed like floral sylphs and the four small pages clad in naval costumes. The eldest, Princess Anne's son Peter Phillips, 8, did a game job of managing both his troops and the bride's train, but the show stealer was Prince William, 4. During the 45-minute ceremony, he played on the cord of his hat like a fakir's apprentice, wrapping the string around his nose and chewing it like a licorice stick. Undaunted...
Agnes de Mille, who choreographed such classics as Oklahoma! and Carousel, now 80 and frail, vowed to walk to the stage for her medal. She asked for the help of one young Marine, preferably "handsome and unmarried." She needed the additional arm of a naval officer, but she proudly made it, while the audience applauded all the way. Alan Lomax, 71, who helped America discover Burl Ives, Pete Seeger, Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie, explained as he left the White House on that special day that he had gathered "the voices of the voiceless Americans" to bring to the President...
...lure of the new nuclear technology and its strategic importance appealed to many young naval officers. But winning a spot in Rickover's Navy was not easy: prospective submariners often had to sit before the old curmudgeon on an unbalanced chair whose front legs had been sawed off by several inches. The admiral's mean streak was legendary. He had no tolerance for defects in men or their work, and he sacked many an officer for being "stupid." Others, like a young ensign named Jimmy Carter, went on to better things...
...clairvoyant on the role of nuclear power proved less than visionary in other areas. Behaving like an ordinary bureaucrat, Rickover routinely demanded that a disproportionate share of Navy dollars go to his nuclear ship programs. Some naval analysts also say that Rickover's single- minded belief in large pressurized-water reactors drove the Navy to build bigger, if not necessarily better, submarines while overlooking possible alternatives in propulsion design. Soviet submarines can now dive deeper and go faster, and are narrowing U.S. advantages like quietness. Notes Norman Polmar, a Rickover biographer: "In the '50s, Rickover was a technical visionary...
...predawn darkness, Israeli naval officers spotted the rubber dinghy heading south toward the northern Israeli resort town of Nahariya. Ducking fire, the craft made for the Lebanese shore near the border, where the crew leaped onto the limestone rocks, scrambled to the cliffs above and deployed for battle. As illumination flares from Israeli helicopters lit up the area, the would-be invaders attacked Israeli troops with Soviet-made AK-47 assault rifles and hand grenades. When the shooting ended three hours later, two Israeli soldiers were dead and nine wounded. The bodies of four terrorists, one of them clad...