Word: launching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record: 5,200 undersea miles, with only the mouth of her snorkel breathing tube showing her trail on the surface. A few misgivings tempered the Navy's pride in its achievement: after all, Russia -equipped with a fleet of the latest snorkel subs of her own-could launch precisely the same kind of run from the coast of Communist China...
Bald, pale Mario Scelba, Italy's tough Minister of the Interior, had studied a Cominform directive found by his police on a Red courier en route to France from Bulgaria. Scelba was convinced that French and Italian Communists were under orders to launch a spring offensive. One day last week he warned his fellow ministers: "We are in an emergency." He asked and received extraordinary power to keep public order, including reinforcements for the police and a ban on all public and factory meetings...
...always kept a warm spot in her repertory for his songs, has successfully revived such Whiting hits as My Ideal and My Future Just Passed. Last week between television and radio shows Margaret was making plans for an album of Whiting singing Whiting. She also had plans to launch her own company, to issue some of the 150 songs her father never managed to get published...
...when President Harry S. Truman rose to launch Democratic campaigning for 1950, there was a stirring salvo of applause and whistles from the multitude. The gist of his speech: that the Republican party had "insulted the intelligence of the American people" when they "dragged out the same old moth-eaten scarecrow of socialism" as an issue in the 1950 elections...
...Many Cooks . . . Outside Uline Arena, there was considerably less enthusiasm over the widely heralded "restatement of Republican Party principles" which the rally was intended to launch. Demanded by Gabrielson and reluctantly hammered together by a group of Congressmen-who would rather have run on their own records and on local issues-the statement was just what might have been expected of the product of so many hands. It was guarded where it should have been outspoken; diffuse where it might have been concise. It sounded no clarion...