Word: armada
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...moonless nights on Scotland's Isle of Mull, they say, a lonely dog still howls on the beach for his Spanish master drowned 362 years ago in the peaceful waters of Tobermory Bay. Both had sailed against England in 1588 in King Philip's mighty Armada. On the homeward trip, their ship "much beeten with shote and wether," sailed westward into Tobermory Bay where her grandee captain, arrogant even in defeat, demanded food and aid from the local Scots...
There has been much argument since then over the identity of the sunken ship, but around Tobermory it became accepted as fact that she was the 960-ton galleon Duque de Florencia, a ship laden with gold and silver plate and carrying the Armada paymaster's chest, a hoard of 30 million ducats in gold coin...
...Britain Conquered!" Acta began by reporting the year 55 B.C. because there was plenty going on then. CLASSIS ROMANA INGENS PARATUR (BIG ROMAN ARMADA GETTING READY), Screamed its headlines. "Quando Caesar ad Britanniam navigaturus est?" (When will Caesar sail for Britain?) Three issues later, Acta bannered BRITANNIA VICTA! (BRITAIN CONQUERED'). By last week, the editors were up to 49 B.C. Gaul had been subdued. Caesar had crossed the Rubicon...
...despite efforts of a whole armada of U.S. and Canadian naval and air search units,* there was no sign of the other five airmen. A U.S. Coast Guard plane searching the island at week's end broadcast the national anthem and a message to the missing five: "Don't give up hope; we are still looking...
...Little Tiger. Thrice he clawed the Japanese at Changsha in 1941. Now, on tropical Hainan, the Little Tiger watches the weather with a prayerful eye. It is the season for fogs. Usually they roll in from the mainland, and this season they could cover a Communist invasion armada. To prepare Hainan's de fense, Hsueh says he needs "just one month more...