Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Already I feel absolutely no shame before you. We are like two married men who meet in a whorehouse." Before the two launch into their scriptwriting, worldly-wise Bergmann says to Isherwood: "You are a typical mother's son. . . . You are innocent. ... I shall proceed to corrupt you. I shall teach you everything from the very beginning...
...Frenchmen and Frenchwomen," declaimed Charles de Gaulle on the 75th anniversary of the Third Republic, "you will soon launch the Fourth Republic!" The General's words opened an electoral campaign whose outcome may well rank in significance with Labor's sweeping victory in Britain...
...nation's high hopes. "I am very optimistic," he said. On the eve of important talks with the Chinese Communists, he felt that a peaceful unity could be achieved. He was firm in his ruling on the Communist demand that the convocation of a National Assembly to launch constitutional government be postponed. "The National Assembly,"' said he, "will be convened as scheduled...
Reconstruction. In 18 months, the planners at Chungking hoped, the pressing problems of remigration and relief would be reduced. Then China could truly launch her era of national reconstruction. The Kuomintang Congress of last May had laid down the broad principles...
...time has come, I think, for someone to launch a vigorous protest against the use of "brass hats" in the derogatory way it is usually employed in your magazine. You always seem to imply that all "brass hats" are pompous, narrow-minded obstructionists and that the war would get on much better if they were all somehow done away with. Your articles so often evoke a picture of some comparatively junior officer knocking down rows of admirals or generals and literally pounding a new idea into their heads, and your writers seem to think that nothing progressive is ever done...