Word: nott
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...British increased the pressure on the Argentines to get off the islands they had so precipitously seized. On Wednesday evening, Defense Secretary John Nott warned that the Royal Navy would sink any Argentine vessel, whether warship or merchantman, that was within 200 miles of the islands after midnight Sunday. "We will shoot first," said Nott. "We will sink them, certainly within the 200-mile limit." By week's end at least four British nuclear-powered submarines, led by H.M.S. Superb, were believed to be in position to enforce the blockade. The Argentines in turn declared that they were ready...
...time Haig left Washington for London, the British government had announced its blockade. Its military purpose, Defense Secretary Nott told the Commons, was to "deny Argentine forces on the Falklands means of reinforcement and resupply from the mainland." But the announcement also had a political purpose: to convince Washington, as well as the Argentines, that the Thatcher government was in deadly earnest about recovering control of the islands...
...island of South Georgia, the full storm of recrimination broke over the Thatcher government. In the first emergency weekend sitting of Parliament since the Suez Canal crisis of 1956, both the opposition Labor Party and even many Conservative backbenchers called for the resignation of Foreign Secretary Carrington, Defense Secretary Nott, the man ultimately responsible for British military preparedness, and of Thatcher herself...
Faust’s work focuses on the spread of ideas and the maintenance of power. She specializes in Southern intellectuals, like James Henry Hammond, Josiah C. Nott and Edmund Ruffin, who embraced slavery and later secession. These are complex characters whose racism was detestable, but who also fought hard to spread occasionally live-saving ideas: Nott promoted the fight against the mosquito to limit malaria, and Ruffin was an agronomist who advocated agricultural lime...
...Last year at the Junior Olympics, you beat out Adrienne Nott from Notre Dame in the final match. In The Observer, she is quoted as saying, “‘Wow, why is Emily Cross so good?’” What do you have to say about...