Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Already, Nepal has a strong and fast-expanding Communist movement, which somehow gets plenty of arms and ammunition through the Himalayan defiles. Communist guerrillas launch periodic forays against Nepalese troops and government depots, and have twice tried to blast their way to power in bold but premature uprisings. Bhutan, which lies a full nine days' mule trek from the nearest Indian trading post, is heavily infiltrated by Red Chinese regulars who patrol across the border at will. And in Sikkim, a resident wrote to the London Spectator, "It will be only a matter of time before [the Chinese] start...
Over 300 solicitors will start visiting undergraduate rooms tonight as the Combined Charities and the PBH Blood Drives simultaneously launch their annual campaigns. Canvassing will go on in the Houses and Yard for five consecutive nights...
Popular superstition had long suspected him of a pact with the devil: How else could a man do with a violin what Paganini did? The Genoese enshrined his Guarneri in the city hall-though they were still uneasy about its late owner, and the Pope himself had to launch an inquiry into Paganini's orthodoxy before he could be buried in consecrated ground years later...
Long before it was fashionable, the Socialist mayor of Berlin was urging the West to get tough with the Communists. "They will become unbelievably agreeable when the West begins to act," he said. Reuter's idea of action was to rearm Germany within a European framework, then launch a "political offensive to get the Soviets peacefully out of Europe." "Why should only the Soviets say, "Yank, go home!' " he demanded. "Why don't we all start saying 'Ivan, scram...
Lacerda then persuaded 3,400 contributors to buy $50 shares to launch his own paper, Tribuna da Imprensa. When Dictator Vargas came back as President, after five years out of power, Lacerda gave him no peace. He exposed Communist infiltration in the foreign office, forced the government to start to clean house. A fierce opponent of Brazil's national security law, making it an offense to attack "agents of public order," Lacerda violated the law by printing Page One stories accusing police of graft. He was carted off to jail, said boldly: "I feel it is a great honor...