Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then came a hot question to Nixon. Would he launch the U.S. into a war-conventional or nuclear-if Quemoy or Matsu were attacked? Answered Nixon...
...Beverly Hills, Calif., the day after the third TV debate, Vice President Nixon made his major foreign-policy speech of the campaign. "It is time to launch a great new effort," he said, "an all-out offensive for peace and freedom." Key point in organizing the offensive: a series of conferences. Items...
...that its defense cannot be assumed by an independent army and that therefore Germans can only be soldiers of the West-the Atlantic organization. And now if De Gaulle tells the Germans that the integration of Germany into Western Europe and NATO doesn't mean anything, you will launch Germany into nationalism and neutralism. If you want to make a third force in Europe, independent of the U.S., with a French atomic bomb, then the Americans will end by leaving Europe, and then we shall have everything to fear...
Even in the days before the U.S. Civil War, Vermont's farm-bred Congressman Justin Smith Morrill looked about him and saw an ill-trained nation speeding toward "decay and degradation." His bold proposal: launch land-grant colleges in every state to educate farmers, mechanics and "those at the bottom of the ladder who want to climb up." On a tense day in July 1862-as McClellan frittered away the Union Army at Malvern Hill-Lincoln signed the Morrill Act that gave 17.4 million acres to "people's colleges." So began the biggest effort in the history...
...unfortunate diminutive coined in 1901 by the University of Chicago's first president, William Rainey Harper, when he helped launch the first public junior in Joliet, III. A more grown up name is now preferred: community colleges...