Word: launch
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
That made quite an agenda, and shortly after Bundy arrived in Saigon he plunged into a nine-hour session with Taylor and other U.S. diplomatic and military officials. Taylor told him flatly that until the South Vietnamese government is stabilized, it would be disastrous for the U.S. to launch more aggressive tactics and strategy...
...their civilian superiors to dispose. More often than not, the J.C.S. recommendations are accepted. Thus, when Communist PT boats attacked U.S. destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin last summer, McNamara called the Chiefs into his office, asked them how the U.S. should reply. The opinion was unanimous: to launch air attacks against North Vietnamese bases. McNamara relayed that word to the President, who summoned the Chiefs to a White House session, carefully questioned each about his views-and followed the prescription to the letter...
...Against the backdrop of Tower Bridge the vast Pool of London lay as still as an inland lake. Across the river great cranes bowed low in touching, mechanical precision. To the piping of a bo'sun's whistle, the coffin went aboard the Havengore, a Royal Navy launch...
...Manhattan Real Estate Broker William J. Hirschman knew, the two men might have been planning to hijack an airliner, breed whales or launch an armada. Otherwise, why would they want a building with at least 50,000 sq. ft. of floors, 40-ft.-high ceilings, and no interior columns? As it turned out, Ben Lieberman and Luke Sapan were neither subversives nor quacks, but high-powered businessmen with an abiding fondness for tennis and the determination to turn it from a strictly seasonal sport into a year-round affair...
...consumer economy and often higher profit margins. U.S. direct investment in Europe rose 40% to an estimated $1.25 billion in 1964, and nearly every large U.S. company made some sort of European move during the year. Last week General Motors, already firmly entrenched on the Continent, stood ready to launch one of the biggest single U.S. plant investments to date: a $100 million auto-assembly plant in Belgium...