Word: navales
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...failed mutiny on board a Spanish slave ship and the series of trials that followed to determine the fate of the slaves on board. A number of parties, including Queen Isabella II of Spain, the Spaniards on board the ship, representatives from Cuba and a pair of British naval officers made claims to ownership of the ship and its cargo of slaves once it turned up on American shores. Abolitionists, here portrayed by Morgan Freeman and Matthew McConaughey, tried to have the slaves set free altogether...
When Clinton took office, the Democratic Party already had a centrist wing, and it looked like Martin Lancaster, Congressman from the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Lancaster spent his childhood on a tobacco farm and his adulthood in the naval reserves. In so doing, he embodied the two economic pillars of many rural districts throughout the South: agriculture and the military. In Congress he lovingly cared for eastern Carolina's Fort Bragg and Camp Lejeune. And he defended subsidies for tobacco, peanuts and hogs (one of the district's biggest exporters was called Carolina Oink Express...
Navy ships are dry, no booze allowed. Well, almost. According to naval tradition, if a ship is at sea more than 45 days, each crew member is entitled to a ration of two cans of beer. Just two. One man, the captain, decides whether the crew gets them. As of Tuesday, the Nimitz will be at Day 45. It has 5,500 sailors, so flying in 11,000 cans of beer poses a logistical challenge. The clock is ticking, but the betting here is that the beer won't come until the crisis in Iraq has passed...
...retired naval-intelligence officer. My son, a former submariner, and I have jointly written a book, Shadowing Crazy Ivan, that discusses U.S. intelligence operations regarding Soviet submarines. During the Cuban missile crisis, I briefed President Kennedy and his advisers. Although few people knew it, there was a Cuban submarine crisis going on at the same time that posed a greater threat than the short-range missiles being installed in Cuba. The U.S. had received evidence of Soviet submarine-pen construction that would have enabled Soviet submarines capable of launching long-range missiles to cruise up and down U.S. coasts...
After Clinton's annual physical at Bethesda Naval Hospital, White House spokesman Mike McCurry announced the presidential ear trumpet. "It's called high-frequency audio loss, and it's a boomer malady," McCurry said. "Helicopters probably made it worse for Clinton, but loud music does it to most of us." Clinton, of course, actually had horns blowing directly at him during his years in the school band. He should have practiced safe...