Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...failed to find a single sentence concerning the interest of the Chinese people. China is in a bad spot all right, but still the people's sentiment against the U.S. foreign policy in the Far East for the last two years has clearly shown that any attempt to make China a colony run and operated by MacArthur Inc. is doomed to fail...
...strife, collapse of production, monetary collapse and famine." The Premier reduced his Cabinet from 25 members to 12 - a move which he called "a concentration of Government authority." This was a concession to the Gaullist cry for efficient leadership, but Ramadier told off the General, too: "[He represents] an attempt to upset the institutions which the nation has freely chosen." Paul Ramadier was ready this week to ask the Assembly for a vote of confidence...
...both the College and the Commonwealth found themselves in straitened financial circumstances, no attempt was made to build a new edifice on the site until the General Court authorized a state-wide lottery in 1794 to raise money for the building. Started in 1804, the new Stoughton Hall was completed a year later, and officially named in 1806. It watched the years flow by gracefully, housing Edward Everett 1811, and Oliver Wendell Holmes 1829, until the night of December 15, 1870, when its prim, Puritan peace was disturbed by the explosion of a bomb under the floor of Room...
...produces a kind of camaraderie enduring as long as the more formal education in the University proper. Lloyd Marcus '47 found that his four shavers at the Margaret Fuller House near Central Square knew little about anything beyond their dozen-block radius. What started out at that point an attempt to "see Boston" through tours of radio stations and industrial plants soon took on larger proportions. Marcus figured the gang would barely escape ecstasy at the prospect of looking over New York City. With friend Norbert Jacker '49 in the driver's seat and empty beds at his home...
Sabo is considered by Harman as one of his most valuable finds of the year. The hard-driving fullback is the loading ground-gainer on the Rutgers crew and has amassed a total of 804 yards earned on the turf for an average of 8.3 yards gained per attempt...