Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aide to Republican Senator Richard Schweiker with no prosecutorial experience to speak of, should be replaced. But lawyer friends of Bell in Philadelphia argued that he should be retained for a year since he had some major corruption investigations under way and his removal would smack of an attempt to take the heat off errant Democratic officeholders. In short, the timing was all wrong...
...left that would have given President Giscard the unhappy prospect of appointing a Socialist as his Premier and seeing Communists in the Cabinet. But a serious political falling-out between Communist Boss Georges Marchais and Socialist Party Leader Francois Mitterrand seemed to sink that possibility; in an attempt to update their common program, the two could not agree on the extent to which some of the nation's top industries should be nationalized once the left assumed power...
Privately, close aides of Sadat insisted that such negative statements were basically a tactical attempt designed to put pressure on Israel. They said Sadat remained hopeful that this week's meeting of Foreign Ministers in Jerusalem would prove more fruitful. U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, who was due to take part in the meeting, abruptly delayed his departure to Jerusalem by 24 hours while Egypt and Israel haggled over the agenda. Then, just as abruptly, Vance rescheduled his trip for Sunday night, reassured that progress could be made. State officials hinted that the postponement was intended...
...again. By day's end, the dollar had dropped back to 2.14 marks in Frankfurt, and to 2.01 Swiss francs in Zurich. One possible reason: speculators noticed that the Washington announcement a) did not promise any particular level of intervention, and b) hinted that the U.S. will not attempt to keep the dollar above any specified floor price-but will merely try to "reestablish order" on the exchanges. That would seem to leave room for a continued, though gradual, decline...
...ready to cope with it. "There is no doubt," she wrote in 1932, "that angels rush in before fools." She amplified this view on another occasion: "No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is futile to attempt a picnic in Eden." Her style was difficult and sometimes, in its defiance of syntax and even grammar, infuriating. In 1955 Punch effectively parodied the Bowen manner: "She lit the sodden stub of last night's fag and took a sip of gin and meth...