Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They make the rules and I'll have to abide by them," said Davis. His All-America sidekick on Army's unbeatable teams, "Doc" Blanchard, had made no attempt to get out: he seemed happy as a flying officer in the Air Force. Davis, who is in the infantry, now plans to serve a few more years in the Army, then try again to get out. Said he: "I won't play pro football if I've got to lay off for three more years Maybe I'll coach. I don't know right...
Died. Count Antal Sigray, 68, longtime campaigner for the restoration of the Habsburg monarchy, wartime concentration camp prisoner of the Nazis; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. Jailed briefly in 1921 after a Graustarkian attempt to restore Emperor Charles to the throne, the count preserved the opera bouffe flavor of the episode by challenging government leaders who had "slandered" him while he was in prison (no one accepted the challenge...
When, in his later novels, he tried to achieve a more objective and disciplined mode of expression, his writing fell flat. Restraint was not for him. The attempt to cut away his faults inevitably meant a destruction of his virtues; both poured from the same volcanic source...
...last-minute attempt to unravel the aid-to-China knot, the Senate Appropriations Committee last week summoned the man best qualified to present some firsthand facts. He was Lieut. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, whose report on his China mission had been locked up in State Department files ever since his return 14 weeks ago (TIME, Sept...
Ivan the Terrible (Russian). Sergei Eisenstein's strained but fascinating attempt to create a visual equivalent of grand opera (TIME, April...