Word: attempt
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JULY 20 is one of West Germany's most important national holidays. It marks the date of an attempt on the life of Adolf Hitler by a group of Army commanders in 1944. The attempt, of course, was unsuccessful and as a result hundreds of high ranking Germans were executed by a badly shaken Hitler...
...forum was planned last spring as an attempt to "make sure the issues raised by last spring's events were reconsidered." Browning said. The Forum included an address by the new Dean of the GSD, Kilbridge, and an informal visit by President Pusey. The Forum also recommended that a GSD Forum be held each Fall and at any other time on petition from either one-fourth of the students or one-fourth of the faculty...
...other hand, the director of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof made something of a mess with his previous attempt at directing a Williams work last spring...
This necessarily implies that each of the committee members will attempt to frame proposals that can reasonably be expected to gain wide-spread agreement among all interested groups and not simply to advance plans that might appeal to a narrow majority...
Maybe he should support the radical students and enlist their support in getting a stronger union, we suggested. "Oh no." he laughed. "I don't want to have anything to do with them. The supervisors have told us that if there's any attempt to take over the House or any trouble from radicals, we're supposed to leave and call the police. We aren't equipped or trained to handle these people, and I'm old and my fighting days are over. I was the one who found all those naked people in the laundry room last spring...