Word: launching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will, of course, do nothing about this until the land has been cleared and turned into a desolate wasteland. Then a still famished population, with no further Indian tribal lands to occupy, will doubtless become an object of pity for the U.N., which will then be able to launch yet another Operation Begging Bowl...
ORSA's report had criticized the anti ABM scientists for dismissing the possibility of a simultaneous Soviet attack on American bombers and land-based missiles. In their statement, the scientists asserted that if the Soviets attacked American missiles, the U.S. would have "adequate warning to launch the bulk of the bomber force...
...Donald Barthelme, and Robert Coover" is a subject few critics would take on without assurance of enough room for extensive textual justification and a good deal of hedging; Levenson's short essay on the "self-vivisection" of these three writers in search of a sensibility uses brief quotations to launch his fast-paced, nine-part analysis. The spirit of the essay is apt, but the dialectic Levenson sets up between the styles of this new fiction and the conventional style of the old is tentative and needs a more complete working out of the basis for contrast...
...helicopters, loaded with tear-gas canisters, swept low over the prison, one of them barely clearing the walls. "To all posts," barked the command radio. "Jackpot One is about to make drop." There was a pause. "Jackpot has made drop. Base to all posts ?move in; launch the offensive...
While Bronwen tries to launch its ticker-restaurant franchise, Trans-Lux Corp., a manufacturer of ticker display units, has been signing up nonbrokerage-house locations all over North America. Quote boards were recently installed in the cocktail lounge of the Four Seasons hotel in Toronto and in the lobby of a new office building in Washington's Watergate complex, a development where many Administration officials live. The board was put in by the Watergate management to attract brokerage-house tenants, but they are few. On one recent day, the only tape watchers were two caged red parrots that...