Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...troops and officers in the line thought that the Communists might launch the big push on Christmas Day. The attack did not materialize but the U.N. forces did not stand and wait for it: they patrolled vigorously to keep track of enemy movements and positions, and they improved their own positions with minefields, barbed wire, better combat groupings. Allied aircraft, including B-29s, were out in force, chopping at the enemy and his supply lines from the parallel to the Yalu...
...August 13. Armed Recon north of 38th. Burned trucks, one bus, one motor launch . . . Encountered 20-mm. & 40-mm. ack-ack. Hit on plane by 20-mm. Landed aboard, wire broke, hit fence...
...laid out $800,000 last week to launch a Point Four program in Brazil. The money will be spent to help increase Brazil's hydroelectric power potential, improve its agriculture and build up its rickety transportation system, thus speeding shipment of vital cargoes of scarce manganese and high-grade iron ore to market...
...home, Trib Reader William J. O'Neil asked an obvious question: How could Tracy afford such a fine house on a detective's pay? Wrote Reader O'Neil: "The Tribune having been a stalwart defender of 'clean government' ... we feel sure that you will launch an immediate investigation of this matter." The Tribune's only comment was an enigmatic headline over the letter: HE BUILT IT OUT OF HIS REWARDS...
...Government of the United States has sound reason to believe . . . that. . . attack is being mounted and ready ... it would appear that President Truman would be morally justified to take defensive measures proportionate to the danger. That would mean use of the atomic bomb, as no power would launch a surprise attack on the United States without an adequate supply of atomic bombs . . . Neither reason nor theology nor morals requires men or nations to commit suicide by requiring that we must await the first blow...