Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...clear skies prevail this afternoon out at Dedham, the Crimson golf team will once again tee off against Boston College in a desperate attempt to play a long-postponed 18 holes...
...have asked prominent men who, in our opinion, have been deprived of their civil rights to give the inside story on their experiences," he said, "and if rioters attempt to break up the meeting, it will only prove our contentions on civil rights." Meanwhile, Cambridge police said last night that they would send a sizable contingent to the forum...
...Freshmen made one abortive attempt at a debut against Wesleyan Monday, but rain cooled the hotly contested match and chased it from the courts in a 3 to 3 tie. Coaches and managers are now working on plans for a return engagement later in the season...
...faraway Lake Success, what Sheik Yaseen called "foreign interference" was on the agenda again. The 57-nation U.N. General Assembly would meet in emergency session this week in another attempt to solve the Palestine problem. But neither Jews nor Arabs had yet accepted the U.S.-sponsored plea for a Palestine truce. Without a truce, the temporary U.N. trusteeship proposed by the U.S. (and opposed by both Jews and Arabs) would be just as hard to enforce as partition...
...Little." Then the Gimo laid down the new line of strategy, assayed the nation's resources to win the ultimate battle. "We have made serious military mistakes," he conceded. No longer would his armies attempt to defend all of the nation at once. They would strike, with superior strength, at strategic points of their own choosing, henceforth fight a war of "big-eat-little." The immediate objective was a limited one: "I guarantee within six months to annihilate all Communists below the Yellow River." Had he written off Manchuria? He had not ("in 60 years the Reds will...