Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mollet does not expect to launch his plan until 1) France's army establishes a position of strength in Algeria, 2) he gets some assurance of a favorable reaction from Algerian nationalists...
...possibly on the third ballot. They recalled that their man had won his senatorial nomination in 1952 over Harry Truman's opposition, and carried Missouri (by 150,351) while Dwight Eisenhower was winning the presidential vote (by 29,599). Some Symington enthusiasts wanted to ride right off to launch a national campaign 1) in the South, where Symington's border-state reputation as a moderate on segregation is attractive, and 2) in big labor states, where his record as a union-supporting businessman might win votes...
...have been appalled by so mountainous an exercise in bad taste, but Dial Press President George Joel, who has made a killing with the sexual leers of Frank (The Foxes of Harrow) Yerby, decided on one of the most massive gambles in recent U.S. publishing history. He decided to launch Mona Lisa, a novel that will run to some 21 volumes...
...proletariat, meanwhile, are they who fancy that without themselves the show could not go on. They are the coaches, managers, camp-followers, and newspaper writers. Perhaps of all these the manager has the most useful task, for he drives the launch, while the coach looks at an odd stop-watch and mutters, and the camp-followers just giggle or shriek, according to their personality...
...viewpoint of the proletariat is, surprisingly, the best of the three, as far as angle of sight and proximately to both shells and spray are concerned. The one ground rule covering where the launch may go is that it must stay fat enough back so as not to slosh up the river for any eight. Of course, the rate at which some trailing shells went this year put the proletariat pretty well out of sight of the race...