Word: take-off
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...struggle for world peace depends upon a foreign aid program which will allow whole groups of nations to achieve "take-off" at the same time, according to a prominent leader of the "gradualist" peace movement...
...highlight of the program was a splendid take-off on the Salvation Army, revival singers, Texas preachers, and other primitive interpreters of the Gospel. Lee Hays as the properly bored but sympathetic faith healer, and Ronnie Gilbert as a sinful, boozing woman gone straight, played their parts to perfection. Erik Darling contributed a fine off-key, off-rhythm trumpet accompaniment...
Ready for Take-Off. What Hesburgh inherited was a university ready for takeoff. Father Cavanaugh, a onetime Studebaker salesman who dreamed of a grown-up university, had sold the necessity of change not only to his conservative congregation but also to the standpat alumni. Money began to flow, buildings to rise. Though 80% of Notre Dame's 30,000 alumni have graduated since 1940, and few are rich, they have chipped in at the rate of $700,000 a year, may hit $1,000,000 this year-a considerable feat considering what they also give to parochial schools...
...Very High-Frequency Omni-Range), which requires land-based transmitters, can guide a transatlantic liner for only 150 miles over the ocean. VOR is useful chiefly just after take-off and just before landing...
...significance: it was the author's age at the time of writing and the pieces could be taken as Dr. Saroyan's Sunday sermons for the new year. The writing, at any rate, is that of a Sunday writer, but one who can do a fairly good take-off on William Saroyan, improving on his original by means of a slight admixture of avant-garde spice...