Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...squadron of 1,000-m.p.h. Chance Vought F8U interceptors; one squadron of North American A3J all-weather attack bombers; one squadron of the versatile, all-weather McDonnell F4H Phantom II, which last week set a new world's speed record for jet flight of 1,600 m.p.h. To launch one of its 100 planes every 15 seconds, the Enterprise will use four steam-operated catapults that are so powerful that they could hurl a Cadillac sedan a mile and a half straight up into...
Private Scourgings. Latest critic to have a go at unraveling the mystery of Lawrence is Anthony Nutting, whose credentials include Eton, Cambridge, and a tour as Minister of State for Foreign Affairs under Eden (Nutting resigned in protest against Eden's decision to launch the catastrophic Suez adventure). According to Nutting, a key fact is that Lawrence was illegitimate. At the age of ten, Lawrence learned that his father was not the respectable Welsh gentleman he seemed, but Sir Thomas Robert Chapman, an Irish baronet who had left his wife and four daughters to run off with the children...
...your otherwise excellent and enthusiastic review of the Broadway musical comedy, How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying [Oct. 27], you made no reference to the book from which it sprang, nor to me, its author. I am not angry at TIME, which indeed did more to launch the book originally than any other publication...
...government. The U.S. was urging that Adoula's army be reorganized and given a "small but effective air force" to back up Congolese ground troops; this would not be good news for Katanga's Tshombe, who, with his own little handful of planes, has been able to launch deadly forays against both Adoula's forces and the U.N. itself from time to time...
...Manhattan's Chinatown to an estimated $100 million in movie earnings, Schenck possessed a way with people that won him the trust of all filmdom, enabled him to function as Hollywood's peacemaker (he settled the long-standing feud between Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin) and to launch a clutch of stars ranging from Norma Talmadge (his wife from 1917 to 1934) to Marilyn Monroe...