Word: launching
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CAIRO--The Royal Air Force took over the offensive in Libya today, bombing and machine-gunning Axis troops and tanks in incessant relays in an effort to wear them down before the British Imperials launch the third round of their desert campiagn...
Until he was 75, Bishop Rowe kept on mushing 2,000 miles each winter, and he thinks he has gone "farther than any other man ever traveled in Alaska." Now he goes by plane, train, steamboat and his launch the Pelican, apologetically explaining that he can cover more ground faster that...
...began to list alarmingly to starboard-"at an angle suggesting a motor car with both wheels on one side off." On the flight and hangar decks mechanics and pilots worked frantically in an effort to launch the ship's planes, 60 Swordfish torpedo-carriers and Skua dive-bombers...
...launch his educational program, which the rest of the Army watched with interest, General Lear chose seven officers from his staff as a faculty nucleus. All are properly equipped with college degrees. Heading the military pedagogues will be Major Ronald Shaw of the Second Cavalry Division, onetime assistant professor of history at West Point...
...took a brisk workout down to the Riverside Boat Club, his method of handling an eight became vividly evident. As Bolles turned his interest from one part of the shell to another, he used one part of the shell it another, he used the searchlight with which his coaching launch is equipped to advantage, stopping at one man for a moment, moving on to another, sweeping back to the rudder post to see what "check" the shell was developing, and then back again to the eight be-sweatered sweepswingers...