Word: launching
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Despatches from Syria spoke of preparations by General Sarrail (TIME, Aug. 17) to launch a great French offensive against the Druse tribes, which have been fighting valliantly to oust the French Mandate and set up a pan-Arab Government at Damascus...
...Corpron, a U. S missionary, was seized by soldiers near Gaishow charged with carrying concealed weapons because he had a revolver on his launch in which he was traveling on the Grand Canal. His passport was scorned, his hands were tied behind his back, he was beaten and jeered at. Finally an officer gave him a grilling examination and he was released, outraged...
...slow diminuendo; in religion a growing autserity; and a sudden termination. His invalid wife sent his chauffeur to call him from his rest and found him resting forever, stricken in an afternoon nap by the bursting of a blood-vessel in his brain as he was preparing to launch on another crusade for Fundamentalism against Evolution, dead on the scene of his last combat, at Dayton, with his last great speech unmade...
...Noble of the Medical Corps, aboard the destroyer Ludlow became ill. He diagnosed his case as appendicitis. The Ludlow turned on its course and ran back 30 miles to the hospital ship Relief (which had fallen out of formation because of machinery trouble). The water was too rough to launch one of the destroyer's boats, but an ambulance boat was sent from the Relief and the sick man lowered into it. Aboard the Relief, he was operated on and reported recovering. On the green before the Pago Pago School, Chief Tupelos, barefooted and dressed in a huge brown...
...through the surf put a gasoline launch, the Thelma, with a fishing party aboard. The beach crowd watched her careen on the breakers, herded to the water's edge when the boat capsized. Good swimmers ran splashing out, split the first wave with a dive, plowed off to the rescue...