Word: attempt
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Careful Course. The committee bill steered a careful course between what Europe could accept and what the U.S. felt it needed as assurance that ERP would not be a running drain on the U.S. taxpayer. The bill did not attempt to ram conditions down Europe's throat. It simply expressed "the hope . . . that these countries through a joint organization will exert sustained common efforts which will speed the achievement of that economic cooperation which is essential for lasting peace and prosperity...
...Beginning. His book, Das Kapital, was a disappointment to Marx. When it finally appeared (after some 18 years of work), Engels was pressed into service to write reviews, both pro & con, in a vain attempt to attract some attention to it. Marx said: "Das Kapital will not bring in enough money to pay for the cigars I smoked while I wrote it." Marx's contemporaries scarcely knew that he was alive, much less what he stood for. He did acquire a brief notoriety during the Paris Commune of 1871, which was regarded as his handiwork. Said he: "Newspaper...
...this account, Brutus is a minor character. Cassius does not even appear. If they did not know about Brutus, readers might well decide that the real villain must have been Clodia Pulcher, a likely suspect if there ever was one, dissolute, clever, and already mixed up in one attempt on Caesar's life...
...best and most imaginative of Author Wilder's imagined documents are those written by the chief of Caesar's secret police, dealing with an attempt on Caesar's life after he has reluctantly agreed to attend Clodia's dinner. Wounded by assassins on the way, with two deep cuts in his right side reaching from his throat to his waist, Caesar nevertheless insists on going on, after his wounds have been bound with sea moss...
Coach Rene Peroy's Varsity fencers will attempt to notch their second victory of the season at the expense of the West Point squad this afternoon at 2.30 o'clock in the Blockhouse. In the freshman aftermath, the Yardlings, undefeated in four starts, will take on a team from Andover...