Word: launching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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South Viet Nam's political crisis slowed up the war effort-at least on the ground. Military land action decreased 20% last week, largely because many Vietnamese units were either transferred from field positions to watch-and-patrol duty in the restless cities or preferred not to launch any new attacks while the situation in Saigon was uncertain...
...Nang was now in Communist hands, according to Premier Ky, who announced that the government soon will launch military operations there to regain control. Ky blamed Da Nang's mayor, a 37-year-old doctor, who has been in office since January. Warned Ky: "Either Da Nang's mayor is shot or the government will fall." Whether so dire a threat would quell the unrest, or simply fan it, a nervous Saigon-and an anxious Washington-waited...
What made the pews even more difficult to believe was that the day had begun with almost letter-perfect precision. And now, after the flawless twin launch of the Agena target vehicle and the Gemini, after making space rendezvous seem almost routine, and after the first successful docking of two spaceships, something had gone wrong...
John D. Rockefeller Sr. was a Baptist of conventional piety, hardly the sort of man to launch a religious insurrection. Without intending to, he did. As the price for bankrolling the founding of the University of Chicago in 1890, he insisted that Chicago's struggling, sectarian Baptist Seminary become the nucleus of the university. This year Chicago's Divinity School, older than the university because it dates from the seminary's founding, celebrates its 100th anniversary-respected everywhere for dynamism, innovation and influence...
Harvard's International Office will soon launch a campaign to remove the legal barriers which prohibit many foreign students' wives from working in this country...