Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...friend Antonio, came there to bring him food. Tweed stayed for 21 months with only an algebra book, nine magazines and a pack of cards for company until the day a U.S. destroyer crew caught sight of his mirror and flag signals, sent in a motor launch to start him home...
...plan had been simple. The Japanese admirals proposed to launch the heaviest air blow they could muster against the U.S. ships off Okinawa, perhaps sink a few. The next day the blow would be repeated, in hopes that the jittery fleet would scatter. Into the melee the fastest, heaviest ships Japan possessed would be sent to smash more vessels, then run for home again. It was a good enough plan, but it did not work...
...American Cancer Society prepared to launch its drive to raise $5,000,000 for education, research and care of advanced cancer cases, a Gallup poll revealed that one U.S. citizen in five still thinks cancer is contagious, that one in four still thinks it is incurable, that fewer than half know any of its early symptoms. The nation's second worst killer (after heart ailments), cancer will kill about 175,000 citizens this year. Ignorance of early symptoms and of how cancer can often be cured, resulting in delay of treatment, is responsible for 30% to 50% of cancer...
...Organists' service committee, he spends his spare time telling organists how to needle the clergy into planning services with good music instead of merely "decorating" them with "soul-saving hymns." Dr. Dickinson pours most of his philosophy into one anecdote: "Once I heard a preacher sermonize on Launch into the Deep. Then the choir stood up and sang Pull for the Shore. You see, it's better to plan your service...
...hero, holdout against Fascism (in 1943 he was rumored plotting with Marshal Badoglio to oust Mussolini); after long illness; in Finale Marina, Italy. When Italy teetered toward war in 1940, he gave Il Duce some sound, unheeded advice: "The European political leader conscious of his responsibilities will not launch his country into a war with a great nation unless he has the power of continuing it until the exhaustion of his adversary...