Word: launch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancestors rebelled at plantation slavery and fled inland centuries ago. Tall and agile, they range the rivers in dugout canoes and carry on indifferent agriculture in burned-over clearings. This week, having paid his respects to Paramaribo and looked over the Moengo bauxite mines, Prince Bernhard prepared for a launch trip up the muddy Surinam River to powwow with the barrel-chested Bush-Negro chieftains...
Showman, Cousy would be up to his tricks again next week, as the ringleader of Platoon 1, when Coach Sheary's boys launch the second half of their season. With the toughest half behind them, including wins over N.Y.U., Bowling Green and St. Louis, Holy Cross's talented platoons were aiming at a goal that few big-time basketball squads ever reach - going undefeated...
...have been Churchill's task to launch the lifeboats, but TIME'S editorial staff must certainly have missed the boat, or at least been adrift in one, when it selected the cherubic bulldog as the "Man of the Half-Century." Could it be that your ever-apparent bias toward Franklin D. Roosevelt eliminated him as the only obvious choice-or does TIME require more time to see things in their true perspective...
...present the Network directors say they will launch an extensive testing campaign, and rely, for financial support, on the making of recordings and the rental of public address systems
...Harvard Corporation set aside $1,000,000 of what President Conant calls "the very precious unrestricted capital of the University," for the construction of a commons building, stipulating that the Law School and other graduate schools launch a drive for $1,300,000 to cover building and maintenance of the dormitories...