Word: navalism
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...which 13 different players tallied scores. Having lost its first four games in 2007, the Crimson needs to set the tone for the season, and it needs to set it this weekend.The team will have some help from new head coach John Tillman, a former assistant coach for the Naval Academy from 1995 to 2007. Tillman is no stranger to the spotlight. From 2004-2007 his team posted the second most wins in Division I lacrosse and was one of just five programs to appear in four consecutive NCAA tournaments during that span.Tillman replaces Scott Anderson, whose 20-year tenure...
Laborites scathingly declared that Britain had been humiliated by a "tinpot dictator" and a "two-bit Mussolini." Critics blamed the government for misjudging Argentine intentions and for failing to keep a British naval squadron "over the horizon" from the Falklands during times of tension, to discourage adventurism in Buenos Aires...
...after the Conservative election victory of May 1979. Instead he became Defense Secretary. In January 1981 Thatcher fired him from the job after Pym opposed her on military spending cuts to reduce the British budget deficit. Importantly, Pym had questioned the government's decision to cut back its conventional naval forces while modernizing its submarine-based nuclear deterrent...
...laborious lesson on the history of the Falkland Islands. Reagan offered to send a personal envoy of Galtieri's choice, including Vice President George Bush, to help prevent the invasion. The offer was rebuffed. What Reagan did not know was that even as he spoke to Galtieri, Argentine naval forces had been ordered to move on the Falklands...
...Meanwhile, Arizona Senator John McCain was on his way to another victory over former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. "Thank you Wisconsin," said McCain, speaking in Columbus, Ohio Tuesday night, "for bringing us to the point where even a superstitious naval aviator can claim with confidence and humility that I will be our party's nominee for President of the United States." McCain spent a good deal of his victory speech framing an attack strategy against Obama, declaring that "I will fight every moment of every day in this campaign to make sure Americans are not deceived by an eloquent...