Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes, sabre-scarred chin, thin, contemptuous smile-was a symbol of Nazi fanaticism. He denied most of the legends that had grown around his name (one: that he had been assigned to assassinate General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Said he: "Only a rumor. You can be sure that if any attempt had been made it would have succeeded.") But the truth about Otto Skorzeny was impressive enough...
Even Keel. But Uruguayans have also to thank the skill of their government for their good fortune. One prime reason for Uruguay's escape from inflation is that she spends little money on armament. Another is that she did not attempt overambitious postwar industrial expansion, confined it in the main to buying new textile machinery, a couple of hydroelectric plants, a limited amount of farm machinery...
...pull out of Berlin. "We can't lose anything by giving it up militarily in a search for peace." The trademark of Marcantonio & friends was stamped on every page of the text. Said Wallace: "We stand against the kings of privilege who own the old parties . . . [who] attempt to control our thoughts and dominate the life of man everywhere in the world...
...Largo has one grave weakness. Through the thinnest possible mask of melodrama, it is trying to speak to everyone in the postwar world who is disheartened; to show how a brave and intelligent man can and must regain reasons for living and for fighting. In this admirable attempt, it succeeds only part way. It may be that gangsters simply cannot be made to symbolize enough...
...Education cannot do everything . . . It seems altogether likely that the attempt on the part of education to do what it cannot do well will prevent it from doing what it can do well. One of the things education cannot do well is vocational training. That can best be conducted...