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Word: yorktown (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fire. In centuries hence, the Irish will sing of the glorious Men of the West and the humiliation of the British at Castlebar. This is all history, and so is the piteous climax, as Lord Cornwallis sweeps in with his troops against the rebels, determined not to endure another Yorktown. In his prodigious first novel, Thomas Flanagan grants this historic episode a new and panoramic life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Irish Wake | 7/9/1979 | See Source »

...weapons systems, it is the first of a planned fleet of 13 Trident A-subs. In size alone the Ohio is staggering: its 560-ft. length is five feet longer than the Washington Monument, and its 18,700-ton displacement nearly equals that of World War II's Yorktown-class aircraft carriers. Equally monumental is the ship's $1.25 billion price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Here Come the Tridents | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...have not yet begun to fight!" It is the gallant tradition of the Constitution ("... and many an eye has danced to see/That banner in the sky"), three times victorious over proud British frigates. Of the Olympia leading Commodore Dewey's fleet to the liberation of the Philippines, of the Yorktown and the Lexington grievously damaged as they blocked the Japanese imperial armada at the Battle of the Coral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Navy Under Attack | 5/8/1978 | See Source »

...quite an aerial replay of the Battle of Yorktown, but the U.S. did win a significant victory over Britain last week. Since mid-February, the two countries had been deadlocked in a tense and sometimes bitter confrontation over transatlantic air fares: Washington wanted them cut. London said no. But faced with the threat that the U.S. would start restricting British flights to the rich American market, the U.K. gave in. It will now allow U.S. airlines, and presumably its own. to fly passengers between London and 14 American cities-including Atlanta, Chicago. Dallas and Seattle-at budget and stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Victory over the Atlantic | 3/27/1978 | See Source »

Robert J. Kiley Yorktown Heights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 14, 1977 | 2/14/1977 | See Source »

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