Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could launch, general tactical action that would not only smash the invasion but blunt Red China's air power, communications system and expanding industrial plant for the foreseeable future. Under this alternative atomic weapons would be used against the Chinese mainland, although great care would be exercised to avoid indiscriminate bombing of civilian populations...
...Life at Putney came as a distinct shock to the old Harvard oarsman used to the spartan rigours of Red Top. . . . Every day a press launch follows the crews, and some hundreds of people show up to watch the eights paddle off from the boathouses...
...materials moved north by air last week to launch the biggest arctic defense project the U.S. and Canada have yet undertaken: construction of the Distant Early Warning line (DEW). When the system is finished in about two years, its radar and other detection devices will keep around-the-clock alert from the Yukon to Greenland against intruding Soviet aircraft...
Charlie no doubt wonders how all this is going to turn out. Little does he know that in the next issue the Allies will land in the south of France to launch a pincer movement against the retreating Germans . . . My advice to Charlie is to take heart. I predict that by the end of the month we'll be in complete control of Paris, Marseille will capitulate. Bulgaria will petition for an armistice, and Rumania will surrender and switch to the Allied side. As Verdun. Saint-Mihiel and Dieppe fall, the Russians will take over the entire Ploesti oilfields...
...five ship captains. His father, after a try at the sea, turned to building houses. Mel had an early taste of salt water; he often went to Ipswich to fish from a dory for cod and pollack, and there were excursions in the family's home-built power launch, the Emmie Lou. Mel spent his 17th summer as a deckhand on a cousin's steamer, serving Bras d'Or Lake in Nova Scotia...