Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hour time limit is part of an attempt to bring out the chapter's membership in full force. Last week the necessary quorum of 85 was not reached...
...first time he had mentioned "police state," Clark Clifford, his chief speechwriter, who was sitting behind him, had visibly stiffened. One big part of Democratic campaign strategy was sure to be an attempt to blame high prices on the Republicans, to insist that the G.O.P. had sent them sky-high by scuttling OPA. And here was the President, head of the Democratic Party, damning all controls as tools of dictatorship. It might well turn out to be the political boner of the year...
Harry Truman grinned appreciatively. What we're after, he said, is grain. He said he knew that people sometimes feel they have been imposed upon, but this is an attempt to do voluntarily in a free country what other nations have to do with police-state methods...
...velvet lapels and sports an emerald stickpin in his wide black tie. When a reporter cornered him last week to ask a few questions, Yeats had an all-inclusive answer. "An artist's personality," he said, "should manifest itself in his work. Personally I have always resented any attempt to make copy out of my private life...
...will urge specifically," he said, "that colleges attempt to institute progress similar to that at Smith, by which both the American and the foreign student pay their respective home schools the regular tuition rate. This goes far to ease the difficulties in currency variation...