Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college is cooperating to the fullest extent to support the President's program," said Dean Mildred P. Sherman yesterday. "Furthermore, the Board of Hall Presidents is expecting to launch a 'Wage War on Food Waste' campaign. I hope it succeeds...
Never did Root's words ring truer than they did last week. At the General Assembly of U.N. another Secretary of State, George Marshall, rose to launch a new debate on the course of history. The Soviets' Andrei Vishinsky answered him and (said the New York Times) "his vehemence left many of his listeners stunned and heartsick" (see INTERNATIONAL...
...harassed manufacturer and a nominal Republican myself, and I realize that they want to lower the debt by cutting expenditures. I know only too well what stupidity and inefficiency run rampant in some government bureaus, but why doesn't the Republican majority launch a constructive program to correct this basic cause of expensive government, instead of criticizing the sound policies of their opponents...
Paper Blizzards. After landing at Galeao airport, the presidential party was taken across the bay in a Brazilian naval launch. At the Touring Club dock, Harry Truman hopped out briskly, strode up the red-carpeted gangplank to greet Brazil's President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his wife "Dona Santinha." Sitting side by side, the two Presidents drove for six miles along the flag-lined streets between long lines of Brazilian soldiery. Cheering crowds lined every inch of the way. Blizzards of paper fell from the taller buildings. Standing up in the car, Harry Truman waved amiably to yells...
...your colleagues undertook to whitewash Tito's regime of all charges of religious persecution. . . . I joined The Churchman Associates several years ago because of the magazine's reputation as an outstanding religious paper. I have been shocked to discover that The Churchman has used its position . . . to launch repeated attacks on the Roman Catholic Church...