Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they did not capture Texas. In an attempt to get their candidates on the ballot they took full-page newspaper advertisements, pleaded that the whole Democrat-Dixiecrat problem be presented to the voters in a referendum. The Texas State Central Committee, dominated by Governor Beauford Jester, refused. The Dixiecrats still had hope-though their chances looked slim, they were hell-bent to get control of the Texas State Democratic Convention next month...
...complete with legs. When she tried to hide behind long skirts and a prim Victorian manner in The Shocking Miss Pilgrim, the faithful were outraged. Many of them got the word and stayed away altogether; more than 100,000 others complained of the sacrilege by mail. Miss Pilgrim, an attempt to tinker with the Grable formula, is that rare Grable picture that lost money...
...attempt to put our experience of God into theological statements is something like the attempt to draw a map of the world on a flat surface . . . It is impossible to do this without a certain degree of falsification, because the surface of the earth is a spherical surface whose pattern cannot be reproduced accurately upon a plane . . . An atlas meets the problem by giving us two different maps of the world which can be compared . . . They contradict each other to some extent at every point. . . So it is with the paradoxes of faith . . . not because the divine reality is self...
With the Folks. Two days after the primary, Boss Crump permitted himself to be interviewed by bellowing down answers from his second-floor bedroom window. Would he attempt a comeback...
...conscious "reasons" and explanations, the researchers think, are superficial and misleading. The real cause, brought out by psychiatric study, is more likely to be "a deep sense of guilt with an unquestionable penchant for self-punishment." Frequently an attempt at suicide is a symptom of some serious personality disorder. Young people, they found, are more likely than older ones to stage fake suicide attempts for dramatic effect...