Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Middle Eastern land bridge uniting three continents. Britain (or Suez) could be saturated overnight by enemy rockets; huge Africa could absorb thousands, and still shoot back. In those green hills far away, Britain (and the U.S.) could, if the worst came, crouch defensively, have time and room to launch an atomic roundhouse...
While it is traditional Faculty policy to launch new students into the circle of undergraduate captivities through Compulsory Athletics, the present P. T. system works at cross purposes to that end. Freshmen dividing their time between studies and a lengthy wait for athletic credits have little time left for extracurricular interests. Our socially minded Athletic Department has the novel experience of seeing its left hand erase what its right hand has written...
After weeks of delaying actions, false starts, and recounts, Radcliffe literateurs paused last night, carefully eyed their thesauri, and prepared to launch their now properly garbed slick. The entry of Law Student James Pines--Jimmy to the literary world--had emerged from pink, beribboned Annex ballot boxes to win an attenuated contest for naming the embryo literary magazine spawned by Miss Irene Tinker, Radcliffe...
...another raid on the Crowell-Collier reservation. This time Publisher Motley, looking for a new editor, grabbed 33-year-old Ken W. Purdy from his job as editor of Crowell's long-projected international picture magazine. Purdy was tired of waiting for his bosses to decide when to launch their complicated, multilingual project...
Modest Monthly. In a spare, four-room suite in Washington, spare, mild-mannered Clarence (Union Now) Streit, 50, was about to launch Freedom & Union as "the journal of the World Republic that does not yet exist." Barring printing delays, the first modest issue of 20,000 copies would go to subscribers next week...