Word: attempt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last summer, however, perhaps feeling overly buoyant about his good national press, Agnew began lobbying clumsily for Administration programs. He started with the ABM, buttonholing members on the Senate floor, then repeated the mistake in an attempt to get the income-tax surcharge extended for a year. As a wheeler-dealer, he failed ingloriously and provoked a curt civics lesson from Majority Leader Mike Mansfield: "A Vice President should not interfere in Senate affairs regardless of his party. He is not a member of the Senate. He's a half-creature of the Senate and a half-creature...
...scheduled flight of Apollo 12 is no less complex or hazardous than the earlier moon shots. This attempt will include a number of dangerous innovations. The trickiest is a free-flying approach to the moon that, if it is marred by an engine malfunction, could send the spacecraft into a deadly sun orbit...
...demonstrators made no attempt to obstruct the work of those in University Hall, and did not throw anyone out of the building. Instead, the students argued heatedly with May and John B. Butler, director of Personnel...
...fact. one of the major weaknesses of the current production is the attempt to modernize a piece which is already so applicable to the present. In Blitzstein's original. Mister. "Number-one-home-snatcher," builds a swimming pool, a park. and a library to justify some shady real estate dealings. In the Loeb production. the swimming pool and the park become a research hospital and a gymnasium. One feels insulted. It's like having the punch line of a joke explained...
...majority-five councillors endorsed by the Cambridge Civic Association (CCA)-are expected to attempt to agree on one of their number as mayor. In the past few days, virtually all of the five have been mentioned as possible mayors, but perhaps the most speculation has centered around Edward A. Crane '35, who served as the last CAA mayor during...