Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Atomic Horrors. If the reported view of top U.S. military men should prevail, and the U.S. (with, as it hoped, the full support of the U.N.) should launch a sea and air blockade against Communist China, that war would have to be pursued in the full knowledge that it might go on for years, however it might be shortened by the help of anti-Communist forces inside and outside China. The war would have to be begun in the knowledge that Russia might come in too, which would lead to the atomic horrors of World...
...heavy-duty tire. Some critics seem to assume that all would be well if only Bao Dai looked less like an amiable playboy and made more earnest speeches to rouse the people against Communism. But if Bao Dai were Peter the Hermit himself, I doubt that he could launch such a crusade. The key issue is a matter of principle, not of personality. To any Vietnamese who thinks about anything beyond his paddy field, national independence is the one dominant thought. And the bulk of Vietnamese still regard Bao Dai as a French stooge who cannot give them independence...
...theater, a fabulous invalid that lingers on & on, was about to get another shot in the arm. Last week Playwright-Biographer Robert (Idiot's Delight; Roosevelt and Hopkins) Sherwood announced that he had accepted the chairmanship of a new Council of the Living Theater. The plan is to launch "a nationwide campaign of education ... to arouse in more people a keener appreciation and zest for the whole theatrical experience as opposed to the frantic and transient interest in hit shows alone...
...series of informal conferences on opportunities in specific businesses and professions will start next Wednesday at Weld Hall. William M. Pinkerton, director of the University News Office, will launch the series with a discussion of careers in newspaper work...
...menceaus were on hand to upset the cabinet of Premier René Pleven. Yet debate over Indo-China at Paris was bitter. Rightist Deputy Edmond Michelet assailed "successive governments" for "an incoherent policy ... As late as Oct. 7 we were told that the Viet Minh forces could not launch a general offensive." Radical Deputy Pierre Mendès-France warned: "If we want to win the war ... we will have to triple our military forces and . . . our military budget. We must choose between the rearmament of Europe and the war in Indo-China...