Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prague, evidence at a murder trial purportedly revealed that the body of Jan Masaryk had been the object of a futile kidnap attempt, presumably to find out just what had really caused his death...
...cultural" objects. There are caves full of bones and weird mural paintings. There are stones carved with phallic symbols and strange pictures (men with wings and birds' feet). Neither the living natives nor modern scholars can read the tantalizing hieroglyphics that remain, but Dr. Wolff makes a desperate attempt. Some of the symbols, he thinks, had their origin in India, 11,000 miles away, more than 5,000 years...
...Gilbert libretti were written exclusively for the stage, and no amount of editing could possibly adapt them successfully to the screen. J. Arthur Rank's attempt is almost bizzare. Its cast is a mixture of stage and screen actors, each group obliged to assume the function of the other, and neither succeeding very well...
...closed shop, were interpreted by the labor unions as clearly anti-union. The authors of the Act, and the Republican party in the campaign, insisted that the Act was for the benefit of the individual worker; it would free him from the labor boss. It was this attempt to drive a wedge between the labor leader and the rank and-file which probably explains more than any other single factor the intensity of the reaction of labor leaders. The Taft-Hartley act was written on the premise that the union leader did not truly represent the workingman...
With George Galphin cracking into the line and Jim Rossiter shooting his pop-fly passes, they rumbled--somewhat saltingly--down the field to a first down on the 25. Three plays failed to make ground and Rossiter appeared to be trapped on his fourth down desperation pass attempt but he wriggled loose from several tacklers and threw a long, high, floppy pass to Harvey Guild who caught it over a Deacon defender's head deep in the end zone for a touchdown. Rossiter screen-passed for the extra point, making the halftime score...