Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberal Union threatened yesterday to take court action against the University Theater for interfering with the HLU Film Series. However, the executive committee voted to attempt a private settlement before starting litigation...
Haylifts. Westerners-with eleventh-hour aid from state and federal governments-began a grim and final battle with the weather. The most spectacular was "Operation Haylift"-the Air Force's attempt to feed more than a million sheep and 100,000 cattle marooned in distant and desolate corners of Nevada and Utah...
Hello, Gang. For a while, in the '20s, she haunted New York theatrical agencies. In 1927 she was arrested for pretending to attempt suicide on a Philadelphia bridge- apublicity hoax to advertise a sleazy movie about unwed mothers. She was an artist's model in Paris in 1928, a dressmaker's assistant in Algiers in 1933. When the war broke out she was teaching English in Berlin; she was soon broadcasting in English on the German radio...
Idylls of a Comrade. In 1946, the U.S. began its ill-fated attempt to mediate between Chiang and the Reds, giving the Communists further time to strengthen their position. Special U.S. Envoy Patrick Hurley personally brought the reluctant Mao to Chungking. Before the plane took off at Yenan airfield, he nervously kissed his small daughter goodbye as though he were being taken to the executioner...
Later McWhorter emphatically denied all these charges. He stated, "Since I have been president of the HYRC, there has been no attempt to involve the HYRC in any other activity or group, including the NSA or the Student Council...