Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John P. "Stuffy" McInnis will launch his Harvard career Saturday when he joins four Boston Braves to lecture on baseball techniques in Briggs Cage...
...glimmer of a possibility that the Russians may be seriously interested in casing the present tension, then they should be given a chance to do so. And certainly such a glimmer exists, at the very least. So let us find out just what Stalin has in mind. Let us launch a peace counter-offensive, and perhaps everybody can live happily ever after in a world torn by peace...
Cash: $2.50. After 3½ years in federal prison for mail fraud, Ponzi tried to launch a "200% profit" Florida land swindle. Then Massachusetts clapped him into jail again for his original thefts. When he got out the second time, in 1934, Ponzi was deported to Italy, which he had left with "$2.50 in cash and $1,000,000 in hopes...
...Paul's publishers backed, to a circulation of 65,000, and he was an enterprising, ambitious editor of Delineator from 1907 to 1910, when an office scandal forced him out. In 1932, he helped Ernest Boyd, George Jean Nathan, James Branch Cabell and Eugene O'Neill to launch the short-lived American Spectator (which the "tired" editors closed down...
Both countries, the council found, were guilty of disturbing the peace: Nicaragua for helping Costa Rican exiles launch the abortive invasion; Costa Rica for harboring the international Caribbean Legion, dedicated to the overthrow of dictatorial regimes in Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. The two quarreling neighbors were warned to be on their best behavior; for good measure, the council ordered a five-man military mission to oversee the troubled frontier...