Word: launch
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...downcast as he surrendered to U.S. marshals in Seattle for the start of two concurrent five-year federal prison terms for tax fraud. But there was still a touch of the old bravado in the onetime boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. As he boarded an 84-ft. launch near Tacoma that took him four miles across Puget Sound to McNeil Island Penitentiary, he called: "Remember MacArthur, boys! I'll be back." When the turnipy teamster does return, he will face 15 more years for embezzlement of his union's funds...
...make their language "the common possession of the whole world," urged Eccles, English-speaking nations should launch an intensive campaign to improve mass teaching media, make available texts, film strips, records, books, radio and TV courses. The U.S. and the Commonwealth should also send "the greatest possible number of experts" to teacher training colleges throughout the worM...
Grumman's Denison, which is 32 tons heavier than the PT 50 and designed to go twice as fast, is expected to be the forerunner of 80-knot hydrofoils capable of coping with open ocean. This August Boeing will launch a hydrofoil subchaser for the U.S. Navy...
...more significant event for those who would join the Class of 1962 was the announcement one year before Sputnik that Harvard would launch a massive effort to raise $82.5 million for higher education...
...idea attracted Mrs. Emmons Blaine, daughter of Reaper Inventor Cyrus McCormick, who gave the colonel $1,000,000 to launch the Parker School in 1901. The colonel spawned all sorts of innovations in U.S. education-specialized teachers, morning assemblies, the teaching of art, music and drama...