Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Every August the grouse season took David's father to the Scottish moors. But his mother preferred to take her brood on a gay cruise "up & down the Thames, in our tiny electric launch, with a white tasseled...
Before the bespectacled, felthatted orator could fairly launch his speech, a contingent of over 400 University students had gathered about his sound truck. They then proceeded to cheer him lustily each time he opened his mouth...
...Some anti-Truman Liberals tried to launch a third party...
...fourth trip-with 16 aboard the raft-went badly. The raft was swamped; a motor launch which managed to get its people aboard was hit by a wave which killed its engine and all but swamped it, too. Captain Cronk took the Bibb over to the swamped launch. As passengers began to be washed out of it, seamen leaped into the water for them; others reached out from life nets over the cutter's side to haul them to safety...
...Executive Committee of the Salzburg Seminar will soon launch a campaign among specified men in the nation to raise between $60,000 and $100,000 for the next five years of Seminar activities, the committee revealed to the Council...