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Word: sertion (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uniquely suited to carry a substantial number of troops, who must be kept fit and ready for operations should they be required." Few people, even among the 1,700 would-be passengers whose 13-day cruise from Southampton to the Mediterranean had been abruptly canceled, quarreled with that as sertion. The QE2 can make the 8,000-mile voyage to the Falklands in about ten days at a speed of 28.5 knots (or 32.8 land miles per hour). Its speed gives it the capability of escaping from an attack by a conventional diesel-powered submarine, which can do 19 knots...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Falklands: The Queen Is Hailed | 5/17/1982 | See Source »

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