Word: navales
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clinton's acceptance of MIT's invitation brings his commencement speech total to three this spring. The President, who spoke at Princeton University last year, is also planning to speak at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis and Portland State University in Oregon, the Associated Press reported...
...captured in a visually exciting museum in British-built Fort Marlborough, near the harbor mouth. Quieter testimony can be found in the small, peaceful harborside cemetery, whose chipped slate gravestones carry pitifully meager details of the young seamen buried there--all that remains of an early 19th century American naval presence on the island. Elsewhere in the broad sweep of the harbor, several tiny islands, which formerly housed military and quarantine hospitals, highlight Minorca's colorful past...
They don't hold White House lunches the way they used to at the beginning of the century. On Jan. 1, 1907, for example, the guest list was as follows: a Nobel prizewinner, a physical culturalist, a naval historian, a biographer, an essayist, a paleontologist, a taxidermist, an ornithologist, a field naturalist, a conservationist, a big-game hunter, an editor, a critic, a ranchman, an orator, a country squire, a civil service reformer, a socialite, a patron of the arts, a colonel of the cavalry, a former Governor of New York, the ranking expert on big-game mammals in North...
...passionate believer in the navy's historic strategic role, he immediately committed the Royal Naval Division to an intervention in the Flanders campaign in 1914. Frustrated by the stalemate in Belgium and France that followed, he initiated the Allies' only major effort to outflank the Germans on the Western Front by sending the navy, and later a large force of the army, to the Mediterranean. At Gallipoli in 1915, this Anglo-French force struggled to break the defenses that blocked access to the Black Sea. It was a heroic failure that forced Churchill's resignation and led to his political...
Just then, Tazewell Shepard, the naval aide who was holding a telephone, called out, "Mr. President, Mr. President, Colonel on the line." Kennedy's whole demeanor changed. With a lilting, joyous tone, he shouted his greetings to Glenn. Then, after five or so minutes of congratulations and chitchat, he gave the phone back to Shepard, stalked back to me and resumed the attack...