Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cabinet Kerdja-the Cabinet of Work." Its program, he added, is "a very simple one: to provide food and clothing for the people in the shortest possible time, to establish security, and to continue the struggle against economic and political imperialism." This last item was a flag-waving attempt to reawaken the nationalistic fervor of 1945 by intimating that an attempt would be made to wrest West Irian (Western New Guinea) away from the Dutch. If words alone could save the staggering nation of Indonesia, Sukarno would be its savior...
...took a tactful explanation from the British embassy to convince Premier Kishi that during his tour he should not attempt to lay a wreath at London's Cenotaph, the memorial to Britain's war dead. Unable to understand why the world is not willing to let bygones be bygones, the Japanese complain that they are not treated as equals, like the Germans, whose war guilt, they argue, was at least as great as their...
...Fonteyn, 40, top ballerina of Covent Garden's Royal Ballet, has not been home much recently. Her most publicized wandering pirouetted her smack into "the presidential suite" of a Panamanian jail after her husband, ex-Panamanian Diplomat Roberto ("Tito") Arias, took her along on a comic-opera invasion attempt aimed at overthrowing Panama's government with a motley seven-man force (TIME, May 4). She was booted from the country next day. Last week Covent Garden's directors announced that the West's greatest ballerina will no longer be billed as one of its regulars. From...
...gazing out the window with his hands on his round paunch, loved to answer his own questions to doctoral candidates as a kind of final blessing. Scholar Jaeger will stay in Cambridge, continue his great critical edition (ten volumes) of the works of Gregory of Nyssa,* the first such attempt since the French Revolution. Said Harvard Greek Professor John Finley in a farewell oration to Jaeger not long ago (following the remarks of Pupil Theophrastus to Master Aristotle): "Happy they with whom he lives, like Hesiod's people for whom the oak at its summit bears acorns...
Behind Martin's alarm lay an attempt by easy-money advocates in Congress to use the Government's bond crisis (TIME, June 15) to put pressure on the Federal Reserve Board to go back to the wartime policy of supporting the market for Government bonds. The Fed now buys short-term Treasury bills only. The Fed believes that if it bought bonds now, without wartime controls on spending, it would pump new money into the economy, thus nullifying its attempts to control the boom by tightening credit...