Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...posse fanned out over the frozen countryside. The hunted convicts sought shelter. Werner Schwartzmiller, 35, who vas doing 40 years for a murder attempt, chose Laurence Oliver's farmhouse. There he held the Olivers at bay until plucky Mrs. Oliver, firmly clasping a claw hammer beneath a capacious apron, worked her way close enough to bash him on the head...
Pieces of Peck. Hollywood, a hard place to get into, is even harder to leave, once you're in. Peck's "one" picture, Days of Glory, was a rather pathetic Hollywood attempt to make a Russian-style "art" movie. It was not a box-office success; but before it was released and before most of Hollywood had even seen it, Peck was one of the most sought-after properties in town...
...high price of high-frequency, coaxial cable in the past has made the wiring of the Yard impossible. Before Christmas, the Network made an abortive attempt to reach freshman receivers via regulation cable, but broadcasting signals were absorbed before they could travel between the transmitter in Win thorp House and yard radios...
...believe that this attempt to make ideas alone the subject of criminal prosecution is the boldest attempt at thought-control ever proposed in this state. It is a clear denial of our constitutional rights...
...unaffected handling of this problem is typical of the whole film. To Live In Peace does not attempt to be a war epic--it merely depicts with sympathy, sublety, and great understanding a small incident in a great war. It succeeds in this and does not attempt to do more...