Word: embarking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...launched a campaign to arouse Protestant interest in the plight of Europe's homeless. Designating June as "D.P. Action Month," C.W.S. asked each member church to join in furnishing the assurance of job, housing and transportation from port of arrival which the law requires before D.P.s can embark for America. For June C.W.S. set its goal at 18,000 new "assurances," more than fivefold the 3,340 it has received in the last eight months under the Displaced Persons...
Emergency or sub-standard teachers will, of necessity, fill many vacancies, Mabel Studebaker, president of the National Education Association, predicted. "Communities everywhere must embark on recruitment programs stressing the attractive features of the profession to young people," she said...
...must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdeveloped areas . . . And, in cooperation with other nations, we should foster capital investment in areas needing development...
After this course of study, I suggest he re-read his letter, pat himself three times on the appropriate part of his anatomy, and embark again on his literary career... of publishing other peoples letters. W.D. Mueller...
...major programs, such as the North Atlantic alliance and additional Marshall Plan funds, for which Vandenberg had led the fight, he could again be expected to help out. But Harry Truman could not expect Vandenberg to support any "impromptu and unpredictable" foreign policy the President might embark...