Launching was a delicate business, and some accident might happen in the obscurity.

She had not long to wait after that, for the approaching launch was a lean-lined speeder, powerfully engined, and she was being forced.

The launch was the only craft in sight that was away from her moorings.

Launchings, barbecues, clambakes, and turtle dinners were other forms of social dissipations.

The launching of this colony was the beginning of modern philanthropy.