Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week long, the candelabra and chilled-wine circuit hummed with hostesses plotting and providing. Mostly it was the embassies that entertained the visitors; being conscious of the high importance of congressional favor, they also invited key Senators. Robert Taft's attempt to cut EGA authorizations (see The Congress) set off Senate debates which lasted until 11 p.m., and spoiled dinners all along Massachusetts Avenue's Embassy Row. Many a hostess who invited a Senator had to settle for just his wife...
Moscow propaganda trumpeted the customary accusations: the U.S. was transforming Persia into a military base against the Soviet Union; as a pretext for the outlawing of Persia's Communist Party, the U.S. had engineered last month's attempt on the life of Shah Riza Pahlevi,* who was glumly recovering from his injuries (see cut). In Washington, Secretary of State Dean Acheson called these Russian accusations "false and demonstrably untrue...
Last December the deal fell through. Though neither side would say why, shippers guessed that Lloyd's had wanted to keep the right to classify Japan's merchant fleet, while the A.B.S. claimed it by right of conquest. This week, in what looked like an attempt to freeze out the U.S. firm completely, Lloyd's merged with the British Corporation Register. Thus Lloyd's took over classification of virtually all ships that fly the British flag, and a good percentage of ships of other nations...
July 22 ... The young chap . . . made a famous attempt [to walk] this morning...
...Metropolitan has been trumpeting a good deal about its new opera, Benjamin Britten's "Peter Grimes." I suspect that the fanfare has been, at least in part, an attempt to cover its neglect of modern opera, for "Grimes" seems to be the only work in the current repertoire that is less than 30 years old. This is not wholly the fault of the Met, since it has staged several unsuccessful premieres in recent decades; the empty seats in the Opera House Thursday night showed that the responsibility also lies with the public. But the Met has not gone...