Launch
Shift
Shift verb - To change the place or position of.
Both words in one sentence
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The Getaway: High Speed II uses a shifter with "shift up" and "shift down" positions in place of a traditional pinball plunger, both to launch the ball and to change gears.
Source: Driving Stick -
This also shows off a genre shift by adding cut-ins of the pilot's eyeline shouting either a catchphrase or requesting permission to launch.
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Another shift was the October 1957 launch of Sputnik which launched the Space Race, the point where the decade's futurism and science-fiction dreams went into government policy.
Source: The Fifties
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