Word: launchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launch this plan-unlike a disarmament agreement-we do not need Russia, nor do we trust her word. She can hurt only herself by her failure to cooperate. Here only actions would count, and all could evaluate those as we go along developing peace under law. An idea can be more powerful than any atom...
...German high command into letting him break the news that the submarine U-9 had sunk three British battleships ("the greatest setback the British navy has ever suffered"). So dazzled by Swope was James W. Gerard, U.S. Ambassador to Germany, that he disclosed confidential reports that Germany planned to launch submarine attacks against U.S. ships. Swope's story was promptly denied by the State Department, promptly confirmed by history...
...tight little army creates the indispensable security, but it also is the nation's most forceful educator. It takes immigrant boys for 30 months' compulsory duty, and girls for 24. Jewish youngsters from Yemen and Iran have learned from top sergeants not only how to launch a rocket but how to use a toilet, sleep in a bed and eat from a table. The army teaches them Hebrew, the indispensable unifying language. From the army's machine shops. Moroccan, Tunisian, Hungarian, Polish, Bulgarian and Iraqi conscripts emerge as the sort of technicians in greatest demand in Israel...
...Brooklyn last week, and the Navy christened her Independence. The Navy's provisional date for commissioning Independence: some time in January. She will be powered by turbines producing 250,000 h.p., is figured to reach a top speed of nearly 35 knots, will carry 100 planes and launch them at the rate of eight a minute, be manned by a crew of more than 4,000. Total cost of the carrier without aircraft: $200 million...
Instead of following the parade of assorted groups demanding an end to atomic-weapons tests, the 250-member General Board, policymaking body of the Protestant National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A., called upon the U.S. Government last week to launch an information program that would enable U.S. citizens to make up their own minds. "There is grave apprehension," said a board statement, "that the Government has made decisions . . . without due regard for the necessity of public understanding." In a nine-point program on the control of space and armaments, the board warned that "the risks...