Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Engineers will launch a more experienced crew to face them, with five seniors and four juniors behind the cars. Stroked by Bob Blossey and captained by John Suhrbier, MIT will be sure to give the Crimson a good fight, and several Boston newspapers have joined Engineer coach Valdemar Skov in forecasting the end of the varsity's streak...
...wheeler-dealer Texan, Dallas Tycoon Robert F. Thompson, whose other interests include seven U.S. radio stations, five U.S. TV stations, and a sometime partnership with Millionaire Clint Murchison Jr. Radio Nord's programs are taped in downtown Stockholm and delivered regularly to the Bonjour by motor launch, along with the plugs from eager sponsors. The whole deal has proved so successful that Thompson is already considering putting pirate ships off Goteborg and in the Mediterranean, off France...
...ribs of the little reptile, says Dr. Colbert, supported a fixed wing 10 inches from tip to tip. This enabled the creature to glide like a modern flying squirrel, but not to fly actively. Presumably its way of life was to climb trees and launch itself into gliding flight when it wanted to move to another tree or when danger threatened. On one of these glides it must have landed in the lake where its flesh was eaten by fish and its sunken skeleton was covered slowly with silt...
...common-sense appraisal makes it patently apparent that neither Russia nor anyone else could launch an attack that would simultaneously knock out all 1,500 planes, 100 SAC bases, ships at sea, submarines, and 300-odd overseas bases, including rocket sites. If they are that good, neither twelve planes nor 120 planes will "save...
...Kennedy, the concept of winning brought no visions of apocalyptic preventive attack-in fact last week he specifically pledged that the U.S. would never launch such an attack. It meant a fusion of arms and diplomacy, a re-examination of weapons and weapons systems in the light of their ability to counter and best the Communists at all levels. It meant decisions made at the White House-a command post located, to the President's mind, midway between the State Department and the Pentagon. And in matters of brass-tacks operation it meant a Pentagon of a thousand capabilities...