Word: embark
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...military, and that the U.S. aircraft regularly penetrate about 100 miles into Nicaraguan airspace. He further claimed that most of the flights originated at Howard Air Force Base in Panama or at military bases in the U.S. But some of the aircraft, he said, embark from the Honduran military base at Palmerola, about 50 miles northwest of the country's capital, Tegucigalpa. Palmerola is the temporary home of some 300 members of the U.S. 224th Military Intelligence Battalion and of about a dozen unarmed U.S. military reconnaissance aircraft. The mission of the top-secret 224th is known to include...
...nattily-attired Elliot L. Richardson '41, sitting with legs crossed, pauses over his salad at Boston's Cafe Tremont, looking like anything but a man about to embark on a grueling, and possibly bitter, fight to become a senator from Massachusetts...
...RONALD REAGAN gets his way the U.S. will soon embark on a costly and insane attempt to protect itself from nuclear attack with a vast array of space and earth-based lasers, particle beams, and missiles...
...nearly two decades, Dario Fo has been one of Italy's, and Europe's, best-known satirists and actors. Americans have heard little of him, for good reason. Fo and his wife, the actress Franca Rame, were about to embark on an American tour in 1980, when the U.S. State Department banged the door shut. State invoked the 1952 McCarran-Walter Act in order to protect the country from Fo's leftist opinions...
...moment McGee's House is still his castle, and will be for at least until 1985. In the meantime, Thomas McGee has left no doubt that he will use any means to justify his ends--and remain in power. Only with his departure, therefore, will Massachusetts fully embark on an experiment in responsible self-government. Until then, the Commonwealth will probably retain the dubious distinction accorded to it by the historian Samuel Eliot Morison as "the least efficient and most corrupt of modern state governments...