Word: shorely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sword presented by Elizabeth I to Sir Francis Drake after he brought home a plundered treasure from the Spanish Main nearly four centuries ago. Chichester's Gipsy Moth IV did not bring back such a glistening cargo; a more modern type of loot awaited her intrepid skipper on shore...
...With Flags Flying." At hand for just such an eventuality-as it has been for 20 years-was the U.S. Sixth Fleet: 50 ships and 25,000 men led by the cruiser Little Rock and including a six-ship amphibious force whose 2,000 Marines were hurriedly recalled from shore leave in Naples, packed aboard their vessels and sped toward the crisis zone. The antisubmarine carrier Intrepid, bound for Viet Nam, was ordered to tarry for a while in the Med. The British aircraft carrier Victorious, en route home from Singapore, also was ordered to cruise about...
...others, along with two South Korean soldiers. A few days later, North Koreans who were attempting to infiltrate a guard post in the same area exchanged fire with U.S. and South Korean troops, wounding an American and a South Korean. As a fitting finish to the week, Communist shore batteries also opened up for 20 minutes on a fleet of South Korean naval vessels just south...
...assault on the DMZ itself began on the eve of Ho Chi Minh's 77th birthday. Dawn broke over a formidable invasion fleet steaming slowly off the coast. Two cruisers and five destroyers turned broadside to begin the softening-up bombardment of the shore line in the heaviest concentration of naval gunfire since the Korean War, while the amphibious assault boats swarmed in. Waves of troop-packed helicopters rose from the deck of the carrier Okinawa. The amphibious troops and their tanks, tractors and guns came ashore, meeting with little resistance. For the heliborne assault forces, it was another...
Most of the negotiating struggle took place in the 150-year-old Italianate Villa Le Bocage on the west shore of Lake Geneva, once the home of Russian Author Leo Tolstoy and now headquarters of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the sponsoring agency of the Kennedy Round. While newsmen waited outside in a downpour (or took shelter in the stable), GATT's British director general, Eric Wyndham White, cajoled and goaded the weary negotiators, personally drafted part of the final package of concessions, in which no nation got all that it wanted. "Even the greater economic powers...