Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Balbin's audience last week was the best Radical turnout in years. Considering the obstacles put in the way, the crowd of 50,000 was rather more impressive than the estimated 250,000 who were quite literally hauled in for last month's widely touted rally to launch a Perón & Perón ticket. The Radicals' meeting received not a word of advance notice from press or radio. Police banished the rally to the outlying Constitution Plaza. Two nearby subway stations were shut down to make it harder for people to get there...
...orbit high above the earth's atmosphere, would be a handy spot from which to start a space voyage. Because the satellite would already be supported against the earth's gravitational pull by the centrifugal force of its rapid motion, only moderate power would be needed to launch the spaceship from it. Since there would be no atmosphere, the spaceship would not even have to be streamlined...
...shot down in the shallow water of the Yellow Sea, a few miles off Korea's west coast. British carrier planes fixed and photographed the position of the ditched fighter and a U.S. helicopter dropped a marking buoy. A British 1,600-ton frigate, a South Korean motor launch and a U.S. Navy shallow-draft landing craft equipped with a crane moved in through treacherous sand bars to retrieve the prize, while a cruiser and carrier planes stood by to ward off enemy interference. Darkness and high tide interrupted the operation and the allied craft had to stay...
...Blood. With George Jones, also a former Tribune man, Raymond raised $40,000 to launch the daily Times. He drove his staff hard, drove himself harder. A good editor, said Raymond, needed "a constitution like the Wandering Jew's, a patience as inexhaustible as his frame, and a physical endurance equal to that of a victim of the Inquisition." His own 5 ft. 6 frame was slight, but he often worked twelve and 15 hours at a stretch, could keep writing even while listening to unrelated problems. "Get all of the news," he demanded. Much...
...footed, goggle-eyed warriors in swimming trunks bring to the picture the nightmarish excitement of their strange underwater battlefield. Even above the surface, the simple techniques of the frogmen going into action are dramatically detailed: at a rhythmic signal, each man flops out of a destroyer's speeding launch, flattens for a moment on a small rubber raft fastened alongside, then peels off into the sea as the next signal sends another man on to the skimming raft in his place. Below the surface, in a weirdly lighted world of coral, fish and man-made barriers, the frogmen reconnoiter...