Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...special meeting, the Sinkiang party organization decided the opposition of "a small number of demobilized servicemen and commune members" has become "the main obstacle to a further strengthening of the people's communes," decreed that, beginning this week, "the stubborn resistance of a few rightist opposition elements who attempt to carry out underground activities should be promptly corrected...
...fire extinguisher smashed the office of a Hamburg sporting-goods dealer named Otto Schlüter, killing one man. Schluter's "sporting" weapons, police say, included hand grenades and medium guns bought in Communist Czechoslovakia and destined for Algeria. Schlüter survived that first bomb attempt and a later one that buckled his Mercedes sedan and killed his mother. Frankfurt Gun-Runner Georg Puchert was not so lucky. When he started his Mercedes one morning last March, a bomb exploded squarely under him. Puchert fell dead across the wheel, summoning police by the pressure of his body...
...fishermen of the Kwei valley, winged like big birds in their bright wet coats of bark, glide out upon the morning waters on their slender rafts and dance them on the current to attract the fish.) But the film as a whole has no shape, makes only a cursory attempt to describe the vast revolution that lies before its lens...
...Princeton, one of three researchers who won Nobel Prizes for cortisone. Said Scientist Kendall: "Cortisone could still be just a laboratory curiosity if those who directed Merck & Co. had not had the foresight and courage to persist in trying to make it after everyone else had abandoned the attempt...
...Harvard Lampoon has announced new officers who will attempt to keep Bow St.'s funniest humor magazine on the newsstands for yet another year. President will be Samuel H. Young '61, of Kirkland House and Philadelphia; Ibis, John L. Berendt '61, of Lowell House and Syracuse, N.Y.; Narthex, J. Jeremy Johnston '61, of Lowell House and South Hadley; Treasurer, John A. Herbert '60, of Lowell House and Quincy; Secretary, George Crawford, Jr. '60, of Dunster House and Salters...