Word: polarises
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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"Have you plenty of cigars, Jim?" asked Rear Admiral Kenmore McManes, commandant of the Sixth Naval District. Replied Commander James B. Osborn, between puffs on his stogie: "I've got 15 boxes. Admiral.'' Moments later, as a Navy band whomped up a rousing Sousa march on a...
Hidden from enemy eyes, safe from enemy attack, her nuclear-tipped priority cargo of 16 Polaris missiles constantly at the ready, George Washington was bound on history's first underwater missile patrol. Skipper Osborn's orders were secret, but best guesses were that he would take station beneath...
¶Polaris submarines: $382 million (for a year's total of $1.335 billion).
The shattered party then adjourned its fight to Parliament, where Unilateralist Sydney Silverman warned Rab Butler, Conservative House leader, that Gaitskell "doesn't speak for his party in defense matters." Happily, Butler agreed that the Tories would take into account whatever "Hydra-headed arrangements may emerge." Their tempers already...
In the catalogue of Soviet might that followed, Khrushchev let drop the only surprise of his speech. He accused the U.S. of "brink of war" policy for planning to send rocket submarines near the Russian coast and added: "The American generals and admirals cannot but know that our country also...