Word: launched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...oncoming ICBM as much as 3,000 miles away. Based on the ORDIR (omnirange digital radar) devised by Columbia University scientists (TIME, Aug. 19), the new warning system would allow perhaps 15 minutes for defenders to compute the oncoming missile's course and speed with electronic brains, and launch a missile to intercept it high...
...glistened like wet leather jackets and were attacking New Jersey with death rays. Thus on Halloween of 1938 did Orson Welles don a sheet and say "Boo!" to the radio audience with an adaptation of H. G. Wells's classic thriller, The War of the Worlds, and launch the most garish panic in the annals of broadcasting...
...hubbub set off among Syria's neighbors by the rise to power of the pro-Soviet clique continued to echo. "Turkey has been selected by Washington to launch a military intervention against Syria," proclaimed Communist Peking, and added that the U.S. intends "to isolate Egypt by forming a Mediterranean alliance consisting of a number of North African states, with Spain as its center." Actually, U.S. plans were considerably less grand than that. Washington's Middle East Expert Loy Henderson had been sent off to consult with Arab rulers and the Turks largely because the Turks, in particular, thought...
...will probably launch a trial earth satellite some time this fall, perhaps in October. Speaking last week before a meeting of the International Scientific Radio Union, which drew delegates from 23 nations to the University of Colorado in Boulder, the Navy's Dr. John P. Hagen, civilian scientist, gave the most complete report yet on U.S. plans to launch a covey of man-made moons in the International Geophysical Year (June 30, 1957 through...
...hear Hagen's progress report, delegates strained for their notebooks when he started to tick off key facts. One engrossed note taker: Russia's Vladimir Kotelnikov, who headed a 16-man delegation. Kotelnikov shrugged off questions about Russia's progress in moon making: "They will launch one when they are ready...