Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heavy Breathing. State Department officials listened to all this heavy breathing with utter calm and, in the cases of some career men, with ill-concealed grins. In her muscular attempt to save face, the U.S.S.R. was abandoning two excellent listening posts, one in San Francisco and one in New York. The U.S. was losing next to nothing: merely the privilege of maintaining an isolated consular outpost in Vladivostok and of endless negotiation for a second consulate in Leningrad...
...Greensboro, his egg-spattered car was greeted with another shower of eggs and tomatoes. Some struck his head and shoulders, splotched his white shirt. Boos drowned out his attempt to speak. Cried Wallace: "The faces I have seen distorted by hatred are of people for whom I have in my heart profound compassion, because most of them have not had enough to eat." The crowd laughed...
...tools in barges and radar-guided Navy surplus craft from the mainland and the Grand Isle base. After three months of drilling, the Humble men struck oil-bearing sand at 7,000 ft., but plugged back the well when it proved inadequate for commercial exploitation. On the next attempt they struck pay oil at 8,665 ft. Humble is drilling another well, hopes to sink another before year's end. Total investment to date: $2 million...
Most artists had been content to sketch typical New York scenes-Central Park, Times Square-in gay or dramatic lights. Others had hoped to do for Manhattan what Pissarro did for Paris, Guardi for Venice and Whistler for London. Among those who had made the difficult attempt to discover Manhattan's essential qualities and translate them into art, at least four had partially succeeded...
Roll Back the Sea is a hard-working attempt to make fiction of their achievement. Its author, A. Den Doolaard (real name, Cornelus Spoelstra) is a 47-year-old Dutch journalist, author of Express to the East (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935), who "meddled in underground work," escaped to England and became chief of the Dutch government's broadcasts. After the liberation of Holland he was posted on Walcheren as liaison officer between the Dutch department of dike repairs and the Royal Engineers...