Word: launchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...families. Beyond that, the D.F.L. Senate ticket would be helped mightily by the fact that popular Governor Orville Freeman, running for his third term, is considered such a lead-pipe cinch that the leadership-starved Minnesota Republicans have yet to find a man who will launch a campaign against...
...Tunisia, violent fighting broke out between Tunisian army units and the garrison at Remada, one of the ten bases France still holds in its former North African protectorate-a development which gave new reality to the explosive possibility that the Algiers insurgents, to provoke Paris into surrender, might launch an all-out attempt to reconquer Tunisia...
...goal for its early-bird, 1958 Community Chest-Red Cross campaign. Businessmen and labor leaders faithfully made their fund-raising rounds, while unemployment hovered around 14,000, three times as high as last year. By last week bellwether Rochester's results raised hopes in other cities ready to launch their big fund drives: the number of contributors dropped 4%, but the average gift rose 7% to $26.75, boosted the total over the goal...
...encased in a bare-shouldered black dress, throws her head back, and through pouting lips floats out her sad, sexy lyrics in a voice smoky with longing. Her timing and enunciation are precise. Usually she plays the elegant if slightly shopworn lady, but sometimes she drops that role to launch into a gusty celebration of the simple trials of being a woman: "Like an oven that's crying for heat/ He treats me awful each time we meet/ But I must have that...
General Development is the most successful example of a new trend in building: a combination of building know-how and sufficient capital that has made it possible to launch the biggest national advertising campaign by any U.S. builder. This year General is spending almost $2,000,000 in advertising. As a result, 300 to 400 letters came into its offices every day last week from as far off as Hong Kong, each with a $10 down payment for a lot. In the past year, the company has sold 34,000 homesites and close to 800 houses at Port Charlotte...