Word: embark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start their academic year, the Fellows come first not to Cambridge, but to Petersham and the Harvard Forest for an orientation period. Following an introduction to the program and a study of the Forest from a conservationist standpoint, they embark on an automobile trip through some of the wide open spaces of New England and New York State. After casting a clinical eye on about 2000 miles of Northeast nature, they finally come on to Cambridge to spend the better part of the year in the library and the classroom...
...streets of Seoul 20,000 South Koreans gave a new and heartfelt twist to an old Communist slogan. As they watched veterans of the U.S. 2nd Infantry Division embark for home, they shouted the rising chant: "Yankee, don't go home!" For the G.I.s, the occasion was a happy one, but disturbed South Koreans hung out banners proclaiming that "withdrawal of U.S. forces invites destruction...
...eight-man team of international experts, sponsored by the Ford Foundation and picked by the School of Public Administration, will probably embark for Pakistan sometime in March in an effort to draw up a much-needed economic program for the state...
...turn. Said Murray: "It is no secret that our atomic weapons program depends upon the receipt of substantial quantities of uranium from foreign nations. These friendly nations .. . are banking on the United States ... to help them build their nuclear power plants of the future. I believe that unless we embark on an all-out attack on our nuclear power program immediately, we may be deprived of foreign uranium ores...
...General' Sherman was even more explicit in a letter to James G Elaine: "... I would account myself a fool, a madman, an ass, to embark now, at 65 years of age, in a career that may at any moment become tempestuous...