Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wasn't your article a bit of a hodgepodge of this & that without getting to the point? Was the article on Oxnam or the World Council? Was it critical, raising questions which the World Council did not attempt to settle, or was it reporting a "fuzzy meeting...
...attempt to find out where these amateur artists came from in our organization, one thing was quickly apparent: a majority of them are from TIME Inc.'s corporate, or non-editorial, departments...
...there is not even an attempt to pretend that the President is directing affairs, is making the decisions, is forming or conducting policy...
...next day, the U.S. State Department published a massive 77-page "white paper." Compiled day by day as the secret negotiations with Moscow wore on, it revealed the remarkable story of an earnest, untiring and utterly futile attempt to reach understanding with Soviet Russia. The only possible inference: Russia did not want to reach an understanding, and was simply stalling for time...
Despite the city environment, however, an attempt is made to preserve a little of the rah-rah spirit that is usually found only in a small-town college. The chief item in this effort is the Freshman--Sophomore rush, a traditional event in which the Sophomores defend a greased pole which the Freshmen are supposed to fight through to and climb in order to capture a dummy at the top of the pole. Freshman victories are unusual...