Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston, a 20-year-old youth, just released after serving a six-month rap for breaking into a restaurant last year, tried it three more times in the same place, was nabbed by police on the fourth attempt...
...Jewish Labor Committee's report concluded: "On the one side we observed a spirited attempt of the Jews in the various [Iron Curtain] countries to rebuild their culture and their institutions . . . and on the other side the success of the Communist regimes in ... smashing Jewish life, including [the Jews'] instruments of self-government and their very souls...
...problem is more difficult, said Hook, but the solution is simpler. Since such teachers are not under the hard discipline of the party, "they may still be sensitive to the results of honest inquiry. Whatever harm they do is incomparably less than the harm that would result from any attempt to purge them...
Other problems pressed upon the President. The bottom had dropped out of the Buenos Aires stock market. During the week, persistent selling wiped out as much as 36% of the values of blue-chip stocks. Frantic brokers, encouraged by the government, called a one-day strike in an attempt to stave off the collapse. Next day the market sagged worse than ever...
...True Love (Paramount) is a sincere but woebegone Hollywood attempt to produce a British specialty: the quiet little drama in which well-bred characters stiff-upperlip their way through an emotional crisis...