Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand-painted in the exact regimental colors and insignia of the period. The cost of the miniatures is about $1.75 per man. Wellington meets other armchair generals about three times a year. Object: large-scale wars involving as many as 4,000 figures. "I guess it's an attempt to get at the playing at tin soldiers that's left in us," he theorized. "Left in us? What am I saying? That...
...Carter's style of leading that may be at the heart of the problem. Although he is Chief of State of the world's most powerful nation, he seems more comfortable wearing his famed cardigan than the mantle of presidential leadership. Perhaps in an attempt to avoid the trappings and pitfalls of the imperial presidency, Carter has been too reluctant to assert himself, to lean on people, to operate, in a sense, with the ruffles and flourishes that this one job of all in the U.S. may demand. As admirable a trait as this may be in many...
...after a swirl of publicity broke last week over White House Health Policy Adviser Dr. Peter Bourne, 38, his letter of resignation landed with an unwelcome thump upon the desk of his already beleaguered friend, Jimmy Carter. As both Bourne and White House aides agreed, the resignation was an attempt to calm a growing furor, but it came too late to prevent front-page newspaper investigation of a politically explosive topic: the illegal use of drugs, including marijuana and cocaine, in the White House and elsewhere in the nation's capital...
Earlier summits had produced grand, and unfulfilled, plans for encouraging economic growth. But at Bonn the leaders moved toward specific solutions for individual difficulties. In essence, each participant would attempt to correct problems that are hurting trading partners and retarding recovery. As one Italian diplomat quipped: "It's a bit like being sent home by the teacher with a homework assignment in your weakest subject...
...couple of buttons on Peter Frampton's shirt, and we can get on with this. (Yes, male décolletage is O.K. No, male décolletage in Frampton's case is not O.K.; he lacks a serious thorax.) What we have is an impudent attempt to filmify and cinemogrificate a collection of old Beatles tunes, most of them from the marvelous 1967 LP Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band...