Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Prospects. Yet Rundstedt's offensive had won Germany a respite in the west. Front correspondents estimated that Eisenhower could not launch a full-scale blow for another month at least. By then, spring thaws in the east would be slowing the Russians, if they were not already halted by overstrained supply lines. And the Nazis had not yet shown what sort of stand they could make in their inner eastern defenses...
Meanwhile, citizens along the Atlantic coast, who had been warned by Admiral Jonas H. Ingram to watch out for V-1 (TIME, Jan. 22), got a few official tips on V-protection. London guessed that U-boats equipped with launching platforms might carry and launch four or five V-1's apiece. The best defense, once the robombs are launched, is probably alert spotting and pursuit by fighter planes. (Against this defense, V-1 is usually camouflaged with dark green paint on top, light blue underneath.) A Washington rocket expert of the Army Air Forces calculated that within...
Slow-talking, 36-year-old Farmer Butters did not launch his odd scheme without encountering certain difficulties. First he had to find some buffalo. The Government finally agreed to sell him a herd then roaming the Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota. Then bankers were skittish about lending him the purchase price. Butters mortgaged his two farms and bought the herd...
...resumption of a peace-time schedule. William C. DeVane, dean of the college, predicted to the SERVICE NEWS that by July of this year, service personnel at New Haven will have dwindled to less than 800 and that with gradually increasing civilian enrollment Yale would be able to launch its reconversion program in another year...
Death in the Night. They are noisy, and gaps between U.S. positions are relatively large. Consequently, infiltration is easily accomplished. Dawn and dusk are best times for attack. It is especially easy to approach U.S. positions and launch an attack when it is raining, inasmuch as U.S. soldiers lie low in their trenches and try to stay under cover of their ponchos...