Word: embark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pursue the Kennedy economic programs that already have momentum, a new president is eventually bound to alter somewhat the course or the speed of such programs. Had President Kennedy been re-elected -by which time he expected the employment situation to be much improved -he planned to embark on a wide variety of new economic programs aimed at curing sectional dislocations in the economy. Whether Johnson will push such programs is less sure...
...week after its stormy birth, the infant nation of Malaysia was hoping for peace but preparing for war. Two Malayan infantry battalions packed their kit bags and prepared to embark for the steaming jungles of Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo); in Sarawak, orders were issued to raise a native infantry battalion. A round-the-clock watch was begun on the Malayan shore of the Malacca Straits, and 6,000 British, Gurkha and local troops and constabulary units doubled their patrols along Sarawak's tangled, 400-mile border with Indonesian Borneo...
...March 1865, James interrupted his studies to embark on a field trip to Brazil. Louis Agassiz, the great biologist, led the expedition, and for one full year the troupe investigated the fauna and flora of South America. A mild case of smallpox made the initial months unpleasant, though it left James with no facial pock-marks. By October his health and spirits had improved considerably. Despite the ill-concealed homesickness of many of his ship-board letters, James seldom regretted the journey in late life...
...Jacques Maritain, Georges Bernanons, Maurice Barres and Leon Daudet (son of Alphonse). Charles Maurras, who founded and led the movement until its demise in 1944, began as a critic propagandist, really--calling for the revival of the classical literary norms and the scuttling of romanticism: only later did he embark on a career of agitation for a social and political order which, in the harmony of its parts, restraint of form and moral decorousness, would nicely complement the reborn ancien regime litteraire...
...Federal Government should embark on a policy of full, rational employment by establishing a United States Employment Agency, staffed, financed and chartered to sponsor research, make policy recommendations to the President, and administer necessary compensatory, retraining and relocation programs. With its national perspective, such an agency could treat regional and industry-wide patterns of disruption in the context of structural economic change...