Word: launched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in the face of the rebuff, Reuther held his tongue. But that only left the convention's 900 delegates wondering how long it would be before Reuther would launch a frontal assault on Meany that might well end up by ending the whole A.F.L.-C.I.O. merger. This possibility was plainly in the mind of Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg when he addressed the convention. Assuring the convention that there were really no insoluble conflicts within the A.F.L.-C.I.O., Goldberg declared: "Our national policies at home, to cope with the problems we face abroad, demand unity-unity on the part...
...example, if something suspicious is picked up on a radar screen, although it may be only a "flock of geese," a country must act on the assumption that the enemy is attacking, and launch its own offensive...
Washington's only riposte was the rather forlorn hint that if Diem continues his refusal to launch reforms, U.S. Ambassador Nolting may be "temporarily" called back to Washington...
...Visser 't Hooft. "Barth felt that the church had almost lost its soul in making adjustments to historical trends," he says. "He called the church again to be itself." He remembers that the "unofficial slogan" of the men who met at Edinburgh and Oxford in 1937 to launch the ecumenical movement was "Let the Church be the Church." And this, he says, "did not mean that the church should run away from the world. It did mean that the church was not merely an echo of trends in the world." The ecumenical impulse is not "to collect churches...
...building military aircraft did it little direct good when, in the postwar famine for planemakers, its backlog of orders was cut from 8,000 planes to 24. But the high-powered research establishment and alert management that served it so well in the airframe business enabled the company to launch, quicker than most of its competitors, a crash diversification program. Today, with only 38% of its sales in aircraft, North American consists of six scientifically oriented divisions, each so large that it has its own president. The divisions...