Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decisive battles of the Revolution. Burgoyne had come south from Canada in the summer of 1777 in an attempt to isolate New England by occupying the Hudson Valley; his 5,000 British and German troops were badly mauled by Americans led by Benedict Arnold on Oct. 7; ten days later, surrounded by 20,000 revolutionary soldiers under General Horatio Gates, they laid down their arms...
Snapped Rossellini: "Whether she is or is not is nobody's affair. I think that report deserves neither denial nor confirmation, because it is an attempt to pry into the private life of a woman who, to assert her right to her own life, has given up her career . . . Isn't that enough...
...varsity basketball team journeys to Springfield tonight in an attempt to stay above the 500 mark for the season. Norm Shepard's men have won three and lost two so far in this campaign...
...same time, the noted news analyst called upon the United States to repel with force if necessary any attempt to annex Formosa. Terming Formosa vital to U.S. military security in Asia, Kaltenborn said, "We have a naval force in the Pacific and should make it known immediately that we are prepared to use it should Formosa be invaded...
Paul Bowles' first attempt at a novel suffers from one salient fault--the author tries too hard. Attempting to depict man's flight into moral chaos and nihilism, Mr. Bowles utilizes a plot too weird to convince and a technique too realistic to carry the reader to the symbolic level...