Word: catapulted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be able to banish from the market such presently available items as a blowgun that allows the darts to be inhaled, a soldering set that exposes a child to molten lead, a tot-sized cookstove generating heat up to 600"', an electric iron with inadequate grounding, a catapult device launching a bird with a sharp beak, and furry animals whose ears attach by long metal pins...
Franco had two contending groups from which to choose. One was the Falange, the blue-shirted quasi-fascist organization that helped catapult him to power during the Civil War and has been a major source of his political strength ever since. The second is a shadowy group of technocrats who belong to or sympathize with a Roman Catholic organization of laymen and priests known as the Sacerdotal Society of the Holy Cross and Opus Dei. It was Opus Dei last week that gained the Franco patrimony. At least ten of the 19 members of the new Cabinet are associated with...
...British warship during World War II, the ship soon acquired the title of "Troublesome Lady." Built to withstand North Atlantic cold, it became an oven in the warm waters off Australia. Despite air conditioning, engine-room temperatures sometimes soared to 153 degrees. After a year in Australia, the catapult system developed a structural defect that grounded the carrier's aircraft for seven months. Two years later, the ship had to drop out of SEATO exercises when its boilers became overstrained. Until last week, the worst mishap had occurred in 1964. Freshly fitted and equipped, Melbourne went...
Hardin's teammates will have to demonstrate similar consistency today to put Harvard on top. Junior Keith Colburn capped his emergence as a long distance runner with a third place Heptagonal finish. A tough competitor, Colburn owns a blistering finishing kick that could catapult him into the top ten in today's meet...
...election. Since the government has lost all but one of the last nine by elections for the House of Commons-an Evening Standard poll last week showed the Tories running 16% ahead of Labor-a general election now would almost certainly produce a Tory majority in the Commons and catapult Ted Heath into 10 Downing Street...