Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alley is a fairly serious attempt to take four large U.S. social groups, personify them-and play them for laughs. In other hands this idea has produced, at best, good caricatures. Allen has built it into at least two larger-than-life characters and a wealth of thoughtful jests. Each Sunday (8:30 p.m., E.S.T., NBC), as he wanders through the Alley, Allen visits...
...would be presumptuous to attempt such a news story without having the facts at hand, and the way they were assembled serves to illustrate one of the basic tenets of TIME'S kind of journalism...
Said Secretary Acheson: "This is a dangerous life and a dangerous world. I would choose a vigorous attempt to maintain the independence of Greece rather than let it go by default. ... If we do not accede to the [Greek and Turkish] requests ... for aid, there will be a strong conviction that a great deal of our professions are merely words...
...baseball's never-never land of spring training, optimism ran as high as hotel bills. From Havana to Santa Catalina everyone was eating on the cuff and getting sunburned. Ballplayers loafed, with a studied attempt at ease, in the lobby of Havana's de luxe Hotel Nacional. At St. Petersburg, where the champion St. Louis Cardinals trained (and were picked last week as the odds-on favorite to cop the 1947 National League pennant), barelegged players galloped around the clubhouse after practice, yipping and snapping towels. All clubs are tied for first place-until the season opens...
...japes. With never-miss efficiency, Berle can dip into these mental files, yank out just the gag he wants when he wants it. The "Thief of Badgags" (as spiteful rivals call him), who has probably lured more people into nightclubs than any performer alive, is now making his sixth attempt in 18 years to lure listeners to their radios with a Berle show...