Word: flotilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Venice welcomed its 44th patriarch and 139th bishop with a gala flotilla of gondolas, and Cardinal Roncalli welcomed Venice with something that sounded like a sigh of relief. In his first sermon from the pulpit of St. Mark's he said: "Do not look upon your patriarch as a politician, as a diplomat, but find in him a priest...
Once they figured out what yachting was about, the newsmen still had to cope with the sea. They gulped Dramamine pills, borrowed folding chairs from a local funeral home, and perched their typewriters on anything handy-including loaded depth-charge cans-aboard a flotilla of seven Coast Guard boats. Nearly all escaped seasickness, although a CBS announcer in a blimp came down with a bad case...
...onetime skipper (retired since 1956) of the Queen Mary, who, during the New York tugboat strike of 1953, displayed his master seamanship by turning on the knuckle of Manhattan's Pier 90, bending his behemoth of the seas into her slip without the services of the usual flotilla of tugs; of a heart ailment; in Southampton, England...
...spent more than $4,000,000 to rent a fiord in Norway, a castle in France and studio space in West Germany; to build a 30-acre viking village and to vegetate the countryside with 4,000 bushy-bearded extras; to reproduce a navy of 33 viking ships-a flotilla only slightly smaller than the Norwegian battle fleet; to man his foredecks with such well-known Scandinavians as Ernest Borgnine, Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh; and to hire, as the big name for his billboard, Actor Kirk Douglas...
...clanging of a flotilla of fire engines--about ten strong--cut through the quiet of a lethargic reading period afternoon yesterday, and students poured out of Lamont and other assorted sanctuaries to watch what should have been by all odds the blaze of the year...