Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...final hours of his career. But that," Bigart added, "is one of the occupational hazards of being a general. MacArthur grossly miscalculated . . . the forces against him. And no nation in the spot we are now in can string along with a leader whose ill-considered decision to launch the offensive of November 24 precipitated and magnified the swift disaster...
...Financial Aid Center will launch its plan for complete coordination of undergraduate scholarships, jobs, and loans today when it hands out scholarship application blanks to all interested students at its offices at 54 Dunster Street...
...Last week LeBlanc and his whirlwind medicine show blew into Hollywood to launch Hadacol there. Opening a 30-day ballyhoo campaign (which included a star-studded $75,000 radio show, featuring Groucho Marx and Judy Garland), the senator announced that he had already taken $1.5 million worth of orders for Hadacol in the movie capital...
...Lattre de Tassigny, sent out from Paris a month ago to put backbone into the crumbling French forces in Indo-China, last week threw 12,000 of his soldiers into a counterattack against the Reds. He carefully pointed out that it was not the big offensive he hoped to launch, but only an operation de degagement to relieve pressure on the northeastern flank of the French-held Red River delta. Communist probing attacks have penetrated perilously close to Hanoi, threatened to cut the city off from the supply port of Haiphong...
...statement issued in Washington by Traey S. Voorhees, former undersecretary of war, the 32-member group said that even Korea does not prove that Russia will launch a major war, much less that it is ready to do so at this time. But, the statement said, Europe is the "next great prize that Russia seeks...