Word: launchful
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Kron's standup doesn't launch a thousand ships of raucous laughter, but it does send off a fleet of mirthful and giggling little paper boats--enough humiliation for a lifetime...
Thus in the concrete courtyard outside the cafeteria at St. Aloysius Gonzaga--before classes, between classes, in any weather, in the demon energy of our hormones--we played basketball. A boy would launch a set shot from the outside that rose steeply and dropped like a mortar shell. Swish! Another teenage pregnancy averted...
...strikes on hold and gave the Serbs three days--until Sunday night--to begin fulfilling their promises. If they did so, the bombing pause would be extended for another three days to complete and verify the pullback. The Bosnian government, for its part, pledged not to launch any attacks on the withdrawing Serbs in the Sarajevo area...
...shareholder acquires 15% or more of the company's stock, and reportedly declined to put Malone on its board. Without the poison pill, a large shareholder such as Malone or Edgar Bronfman Jr., who heads Seagram and MCA and controls 14.9% of Time Warner, could gobble stock and launch a hostile bid for the company. (Bronfman's stake would drop to about 9% after the merger...
...when more and more Americans are claiming to be repelled by politicians--an era when even politicians say they're repelled by politicians--would hardly seem an auspicious time to launch a self-described "fan magazine" about politics, a Rolling Stone for the arts of governance and electioneering. But here it is: George, a slick bimonthly named for our nation's first President. More memorable than the twee title is the name at the top of George's masthead: John F. Kennedy Jr., a former assistant district attorney who is now Manhattan's most glamorous editor in chief, Tina Brown...