Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Russians as nothing more than earnest Socialists. As early as March 5, 1945, hard on the heels of the Yalta Conference, TIME published a prophetic "political fairy tale" by Chambers that was called "The Ghosts on the Roof," in which he accurately predicted a ruthless, imperialistic Russia about to launch an offensive to conquer the world. Chambers' concern with evil could also take other forms. In a fanciful and humorous article for LIFE, Chambers pictured the Devil as a sort of cosmic underground agent-an embodiment of evil in disguise...
...last week, at a Moscow dinner in honor of Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, Nikita rose to launch an attack on the U.N., declared that "even if all the countries of the world adopted a decision that did not accord with the interests of the Soviet Union and threatened its security, the Soviet Union would not recognize such a decision but would uphold its rights, relying on force. And we have the wherewithal to do this...
Sprinting from speech to speech on the third anniversary of his revolutionary regime, volatile Kassem repeated last week that he would not use force to "liberate" Kuwait-and in the next breath threatened force against Britain. "We shall launch a bitter war against the British if they do not heed right and abandon oppression!" he told the crowds after reviewing a 2½-hour parade of troops and weapons in Baghdad's Liberation Square...
Daring or Dead? For flubbing the challenge before, almost everyone shares blame. Handed $10 million by Congress in 1960 to launch the center, the State Department simply turned it over to the University of Hawaii without guidance. Though first-rate in a few fields, such as tropical agriculture and marine biology, the university was best known for a summer hula course, low faculty pay and an uninspired board of regents. Critics charge that President Laurence H. Snyder, who in the words of one faculty member "came out here to enjoy semiretirement and polish kukui nuts," mainly...
...Columnist Murray Kempton, "are only poor morning papers delivered in the afternoon. Every afternoon paper in New York is written out of the Times and the News-though they do pick up slightly as the day goes on." Now and then, one of the evening dailies bestirs itself to launch a crusade, e.g., the World-Telegram's recent series on slum landlords and university-student cheating. But such enterprise is rare. More characteristic is the Post's current serialization of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe's famed igth century sermon on the evils...