Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...facet of a talent hitherto largely devoted to villainous sneers. For an actor who looks like a beer-truck driver (he became an actor only because the refrigeration school he wanted to attend was too far from his New Haven home), the revelation may be just startling enough to launch a new career...
Whipple explained last night the reason for moving the Smithsonian's headquarters here: "The interests of both observatories are very similar, and the change will enable us to launch a broad attack on the area of astronomical geophysics...
...could now devastate an army's reserve-supply area. The artillery commander who might have aimed an 8-in. howitzer at a crossroads could now aim a similar weapon, fire an atomic shell and wipe out the heart of a whole infantry division. A Navy torpedo plane could launch an atomic torpedo that could lift a ship out of the water; a destroyer could fire an atomic depth charge that would crush submarines like eggshells...
...deliberately chose Holy Week to launch, through his puppet press, a campaign for repeal of the constitutional provision stating that "the federal government supports the Roman Catholic Apostolic Church...
Approximately every four years the College's political clubs shake themselves from their lethargy to launch wild attacks on each other. After a few weeks the effort seems to overcome them and they quickly slip back into inactivity. While political debates continue in dormitory rooms and newspapers, local partisan groups ignore each other, their members thoroughly engrossed in agreeing with themselves...