Word: launch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glenn explained at a conference, his knowledge from the three-orbit flight of Friendship 7 had long since been assimilated into the space program. Also, by the time the U.S. is ready to launch the Apollo man-on-the-moon shot, Glenn, now 42, will be "near 50-not very old for most occupations, but on the edge of doubt for astronauts." Glenn therefore decided to run for the Senate because "this is an area in which I have had a lifelong interest. I feel that it provides the best opportunity to make use of the experience I have gained...
Newton pays its school superintendent $22,000 a year, compared with the mayor's $15,000, and in Harvard-honed Charles E. Brown, 39, it has one of U.S. education's genuine whiz kids-a reformer who believes that schools them selves must launch curriculum ideas rather than wait for university brain-stormers. Newton is no passive receiver of new courses through the mail. It creates its own, the work of teachers who plunge into ceaseless meetings and study groups as soon as the kids go home in the afternoon...
...economy, but the foreign investor's recent tendency has been to reduce rather than increase his commitment there. To speed the southward flow of capital and induce more wealthy Europeans and Japanese to help out, a blue-ribbon group of 100 free-world businessmen met in Paris to launch a development corporation for Latin America that is both private and multinational...
With four minutes to go the Crimson eased into an eight point lead, and its zone defense kept it comfortably in front. Worcester had to content itself with outside shooting, and while proficient in this sport, was unable to launch a serious counter-attack...
...letter above is confused and disappointing. I respect his brilliance; I admire much of his social thinking--he is one of the last utopians we have left. But I can only pity his hang-ups. How preferable it would be for us all if Mr. Goodman could launch his diatribes at the unendurable American middle-class from some secluded little New Hampshire hide-away, like J. D. Sailnger's, and leave the revolutionary field work to others...