Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MACARTHUR: "I do not believe that it would be within the capacity of the Soviet to mass any great additional increment of force to launch any predatory attack from the Asiatic continent ... All of the sustenance that goes in in such major quantity to support armed forces must pass over that railway line which runs from European Russia across Siberia. That line is strained to the very utmost now to maintain on a normal peace basis the forces which the Soviet maintains in Siberia ... I believe that the dispositions of the Soviet forces are largely defensive . . . The weakness...
...broken, the Chinese Reds had not only stopped, but recoiled. Instead of leapfrogging fresh units into the battle, they pulled back out of U.N. artillery range to regroup and catch their breath. It was surprising to some U.N. officers in Korea that the Chinese needed so much time to launch the second surge of their offensive...
...weather barred air support. Colonel Harris' most useful field pieces - 105-mm. howitzers-could not get up the muddy road. A bulldozer at work widening the road for six-by-six trucks got stuck, which meant that ammunition had to come up by jeep. Colonel Harris decided to launch an amphibious assault...
Although it didn't help their causes one bit, the president of M.I.T. and B.U., James R. Killian and Harold Case, contributed to the dignity of the day by riding up the Charles together in the Tech launch...
...organizational meeting tonight will launch the Cricket Club on its second season since the war. The meeting will take place in the Eliot House Common Room at 8:15 p.m., and is open to all men in the University...