Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...denied ever having seen the letter and termed it a "definite attempt at smearing...
Manager Bob Bennett will submit a report of the year's efforts to the H.A.A. before the end of the term in an attempt to secure reinstatement for polo as a minor sport next year. The H.A.A. would then arrange a schedule and include the mounties on its list of official College athletic events, but would not back them financially...
...letter, said Stalin, was "the most important document of recent times;" in contrast, the Smith-Molotov conversations had been inadequate. The Wallace letter made "an open and honest attempt to give a concrete program for a peaceful settlement...
...months since the government slapped an embargo on all but the most essential imports-in a desperate attempt to conserve Mexico's dwindling dollar credits-smuggling has become an organized, multimillion-dollar racket. And the 4,570 gleaming new automobiles that have clandestinely crossed the border are only a part of the story...
...declared: "The Mundt-Nixon Bill appears to be aimed at restricting the activities of Communists. Its vague and loose phraseology, however, indicates that it threatens the expression of liberal and progressive thought. Its enactment would strike a serious blow at our cherished rights of free expression. We deplore this attempt to restrict American freedoms and urge Congress to defeat the Mundt-Nixon Bill...