Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote. A law-given tenure attached to the position of Superintendent is the stalemate preventing any real improvement of the school system. An irate majority on the Committee screams for Mr. Tobin's head, but with three of his supporting east on the board, every pre-election attempt at decapitation has been efficiently throttled...
...Student Council is today mobilizing agents from every entry in the College for a full-scale onslaught on undergraduates' pocketbooks in an attempt to raise $25,000 for charity, scholarships, College activities, and Council expenses. Opening gun will be fired tonight...
...denied labor the right to bargain collectively, had not broken its big sword, the strike, and had not deprived it of minimum wages. The A.F.L.'s expensive attempt to brand it a "slave labor law" had fallen dismally flat. The average citizen simply looked at U.S. wage rates* and asked: "Where are the slaves...
...mutual-assistance pact. And it is not difficult to imagine that the Chinese ambassador in Moscow would then be summoned by Molotov and politely reminded that the Soviet Union has a mutual-assistance pact with the "People's Republic of Outer Mongolia." Therefore if the Chinese Government should attempt by arms to regain its province of Manchuria, and Outer Mongolia should go to the assistance of the "People's Republic of Manchuria," the Soviet Union under its pact with Outer Mongolia regretfully would be obliged to use force to prevent the Chinese Government from inflicting injury...
...attempt to reveal the frustration of an escaped convict unable to trap the killer who has framed him becomes lost in a maze of bewildering side issues and incredible coincidences. Taxi drivers, plastic surgeons, small time grifters, and Lauren Bacall flit through the story in a circus parade of confusion that subordinates the basic theme to the point of obscurity. There seems no attempt to produce a graceful transition from seene to seene. Each skit drops down out of thin air, rumbles along to its maximum dramatic intensity, and then slowly sinks over the horizon...