Word: naval
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wedding. As a young man, Prince Philip, penniless but promising, married his adored young cousin Lilibet. His sister was the Queen of Sweden. Louis Mountbatten himself--and how he loved it all--was wealthy, flashingly handsome, a polo-playing friend of rajas and movie stars, a somewhat too fearless naval commander, an unsubtle, decent, enormously energetic man, grand if not great, whose immense, childish vanity was only just outweighed by his good sense and charm...
...second-seeded Crimson varsity (2-2) will return to Worcester's take Quinsigamond on Sunday hoping to repeat that two-year-old trumply, but there's a big obstacle in the way-the U.S. Naval Academy...
Although Dr. Donal Billig had a flawed record as a physician, he got further than most: in little more than a year, he went from serving on the staff of a Pittsburgh hospital to running cardiothoracic surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital, the Navy's flagship health operation. But his success was of short duration. After an in-house investigation, Bethesda suspended Billig last week for "an insufficient level of surgical competence...
...Louisville School of Medicine, was recruited by the Navy. At Bethesda, things began to go bad after ten months. In 1983 the hospital suspended Billig's surgery credentials, later reinstating them. Some reports say the Navy knew of Billig's New Jersey history when it approached him; a naval investigation is to begin this week...
...pull might explain discrepancies in the movements of Neptune and Uranus. Even the discovery of Pluto in 1930 did not fulfill the gravitational force needed to justify Uranus' meanderings, and some astronomers have long thought that a tenth planet is somewhere out there. Astronomer Robert Harrington of the U.S. Naval Observatory has gone so far as to paint a description of the suspect, and it is no pedestrian planet. It is three to five times the mass of the earth, is gaseous like Jupiter, has an orbit that is elliptical rather than circular and inclines to the plane...