Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Entreves was about to launch into a discourse on professors, students and not-mattering-much, but promptly at four o'clock he rose, put on his foulard muffler, expressed thanks for the interview, and departed. Halfway out of the door he turned, smiled his thin, winking smile, and apologized, "Tea, you know," and left...
...initial step, Dickey said that the Board of Trustees Committee on Development plans to launch a two-year capital gifts campaign next fall to provide capital for immediate priority plant projects and for new salary advances...
...submarines to launch such missiles will have to be specially built and unusually big. The Navy has not revealed how the missiles will be stowed on board. They may be carried in firing position in vertical cells, or, if this is too awkward, they may be carried lying down and be raised toward the vertical by a launching mechanism. The missile-subs will be nuclear-powered so they can hide off an enemy coast for months before loosing their missiles. The first such submarine especially designed to fire the Polaris will be launched in four or five years...
...Dutch diver named Flip Gwoud suited up aboard a Danish launch at the southern entrance to the Suez Canal. Then he slid over the side to mark the sunken wreck of the Egyptian frigate Abikir. Minutes later the Danish tug Protector chugged past to start work on a wrecked dredger blockading passage eight miles farther north. Thus at last the U.N. salvage fleet began its huge job of clearing the 40 wrecks that block the Suez Canal...
...miles each over North America and the arctic. "This is the first time that the nation's Strategic Air Force has tested the operational capability of its strike force in such large numbers during such a short period of time. These missions demonstrated our capability to launch a retaliatory strike force in minimum time...