Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Luthuli entered politics wholeheartedly, became a member of the Native Representative Council, an advisory group supposed to acquaint the white government with the views of South Africa's blacks. Fed up with the bogus paternalism of this arrangement, Luthuli joined the African National Congress, in 1952 helped launch a nationwide passive-resistance campaign against the color bar. Reacting immediately to this defiance, the government jailed 8,000 Africans and nonwhites, stripped Luthuli of his chieftainship. By now a national figure, Luthuli was elected president of the African National Congress, urged a policy of nonviolent militancy on his supporters...
...deployed and protected that a sneak attack could not effectively disarm us. The destructive power which the United States could bring to bear even after a Soviet surprise attack would be as great as-perhaps greater than-the total undamaged force which the enemy can threaten to launch against the United States in a first strike. In short, we have a second-strike capability which is at least as extensive as what the Soviets can deliver by striking first...
American Machine & Foundry Co., more widely known for its automatically controlled bowling Pinspotters, is in aerospace with launch site mechanisms for Titan I, Atlas and Minuteman plus a projected moon wagon which will travel on wire brushes...
...mainland resembled those of 1911, "when even the officers and men of the Manchu 'new army' were longing for the great day that was soon to dawn." With stubborn, visionary optimism, Chiang predicted large-scale uprisings soon in Red China, and promised that he would then launch a "massive counteroffensive" to help topple the Communists...
Winston, an English major, will receive the $1,000 award jointly with Franklin J. Kosdon of M.I.T. for their invention of a solid rocket propellent. The project was part of a long-range plan to construct and launch a probe rocket intended to carry an instrument package thirty or forty miles into the atmosphere...