Word: proceed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...call in civilian industry to run its program. Chief of Naval Operations Burke issued orders to Rear Admiral William Francis Raborn Jr., 55, a bluff, barrel-chested navigator who had never seen the sea before he got to Annapolis with the class of 1928. Burke gave Raborn orders to proceed with "all possible haste" to develop a fleet ballistic missile. He was authorized to set up a task force called, simply, Special Projects, which would cut across all the Navy's cherished bureaus. His work, Raborn was told, would get "Brickbat Zero One" priority; there was (and is) none...
...request, the top men from all his important contractors-Lockheed, G.E., General Dynamics, M.I.T.-were summoned to a meeting in Washington. In a speech that was part locker-room pep talk, part sermon, part Navy enlistment appeal, part Arthur Godfrey commercial, they were asked if they were willing to proceed on "wartime urgency with wartime dedication." If the answer was yes, said Raborn, "I want the word of your company in bond that you will...
...wrote "Lockheed." General Electric's Ralph Cordiner stood up and said: "Give us the money and stay out of our hair." Everyone else simply nodded. The next day a Marine courier arrived at the Special Projects office in the old Munitions Building and delivered top-secret orders to proceed with the Polaris acceleration...
...reformers also are having second thoughts about how to proceed in bringing ex-Premier Menderes, ex-President Celal Bayar and more than 400 other arrested Democratic leaders to trial for corruption. The army reformers are increasingly aware that vindictive, Castro-style blood-letting would only hurt Turkey's world standing, are considerably less bloodthirsty than the press or public in demanding punishment of the old regime. "If the army had wanted to kill all those men," said a Turk appointed to one of the 15 (out of 19) interim ministries assigned to civilians, "it could easily have killed them...
...whole. "We want biology," says Zoologist John A. Moore of Columbia University, "not plants plus animals, each in splendid isolation, as is so often done in many courses. A Cook's tour of the plant and animal kingdom is no longer considered an effective way to proceed...