Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshall approach" is one obvious way of trying to stave off a situation in which war would be inevitable. Another attempt is the Wedemeyer mission (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) to find out how to help China and Korea stay out of the hands of the Communists. If that mission develops a "Wedemeyer approach" to Asia, it may cost the U.S. a few billions...
Thereupon Julian Marin, a boy from a nearby Navarre town, made himself a hero. He fought No. 21 all over the ring, on his knees, sitting on the barrera and on his feet, so close to the bull that twice everybody thought the bull had him. On his first attempt to kill, he missed; normally, this would have forfeited his chance to get a full set of trophies-the bull's ears and tail. On his second try, he killed well. When the president of the corrida gave him only two ears, the crowd waved handkerchiefs until Marin...
Said Marshall: "No conditions were attached to this withdrawal. . . . No political parties . . . have been left behind in European countries to attempt conquest of governments from within. No American agents have sought to dominate the police establishments of European countries...
...more new taxes, or had hiked up old ones. Faced with wage raises for public employees and increased operating costs, 15 states had passed cigaret tax laws; nine had raised taxes on liquor; four had started sales taxes. Taxpayers, long used to this kind of pasture milking, made no attempt to kick over the bucket. But there was a great deal of angry tail-switching...
Molotov had dealt his French comrades, and Communists everywhere, a cruel blow. The Moscow press offered hollow comfort by declaring that the long-expected U.S. depression was at hand, that the Marshall Plan was merely an attempt to capture markets for the U.S. But Izvestia reminded world Communism of the larger, long-range issues. At Monticello last week, Harry Truman had in effect declared that there was an ideological war on between democratic philosophy and its totalitarian enemies. Izvestia belligerently agreed: "The greatest achievement of world culture-Leninism-illuminates our road. ... A fighting, militant ideology, irreconcilable and merciless...