Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third pass, the Besslednyi scraped sides with the U.S. destroyer Walker, losing a motor launch and tearing a whip antenna off the Walker. Then it withdrew. Next day DD025, a Russian destroyer of the heavy Krupny class, armed with two missile launchers, continued the contest of nerves. Again, Walker was one of two ships ordered to force it away. This time the Russian ship swerved directly across the Walker's bow. The two ships brushed momentarily together, and the Walker disengaged with a six-inch hole in its hull above the waterline...
...thousand takes. He's got a Jack Paar smile, a Jack Benny stare, a Stan Laurel fluster. If a joke dies, he waits a second, and then yawns a fine Ed Sullivan "Ho-o-okay. . ." A sudden thought-either his or a guest's-will launch him into an imitation of Jona than Winters imitating an old granny. He can spread his eyes wide open into a wow. Semi-emancipated puritan that he is (he was reared a Methodist), he can, when a guest goes off-color, freeze his face into a blank that shows nothing but eyes...
...Cabinet post, Minister to the Premier. The plot had been in the works for two years and involved 300 of the Greek army's 8,000-man officer corps. The date for the take-over was decided, said Colonel Papadopoulos, by intelligence reports that the Communists intended to launch a coup of their own last weekend. Not many Greeks believed that story...
...Apollo. But by the cosmonaut's fifth revolution around the earth, they believe, increasing difficulties with both the attitude-control and communications systems warned ground controllers that the flight of Soyuz might have to be prematurely ended. Plans for a rendezvous were abandoned, and the launch of the second spacecraft was scrubbed...
King, then, did not in any way "launch" Vietnam Summer at his press conference in Cambridge on April 22. He was not there at its genesis, and he is still not involved in any of the project's programs. Officially, he is a "sponsor," but the extent of his personal participation is yet to be determined and will probably be slight. However, he does make headlines -- perhaps one too many...