Word: launched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...swam back to the bridge and hung on to one of the supports until police pulled him up. A Metropolitan District Commission launch arrived just after the rescue was effected...
Harvard's eight pulled down the river in short bursts, testing a variety of cadences. In the bow of his launch, Tom Bolles chewed gum, bellowed instructions through a megaphone and watched every move of his long-legged crew. A big man himself, he has no time for little men: "Unless he's six-feet-four and his hands hang down around his knees, he can't be a good oarsman." At Cambridge Bridge, the coach went wild yelling at a flock of dinghies to clear the course. In a practice spin at 2,000 meters...
Somehow, Dostoevsky managed to edit The Citizen regularly all through 1873. Early the following year he quit his job, but in 1876 he decided to launch Diary, an all-Dostoevsky monthly of his own. It appeared irregularly until shortly before his death, in 1881. He wrote all the copy himself, from memorable criticisms of his contemporaries to ill-tempered notes to dissatisfied subscribers. His wife was business manager; when an issue came out she drafted the family nursemaid or stray visitors to help mail...
...estranged wife Dolly from the New York Post Home News (TIME, April 18), had been an editor without a mouthpiece. Last week a way was found to employ both editor and presses. With money furnished by a generous backer, Ted Thackrey bought the Star's equipment, prepared to launch a new 10? morning tabloid in New York City next week. Its name: the Compass...
Friends, the press launch offers everything. Fine seats, free Hershey bars from Bill Bingham, and a chance to rub elbows with the great infallibles of the sporting pages...