Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Those endorsements, which Duehay and Wylie have asked to be with-drawn, may be an attempt to confuse voters, Duehay and Wylie charged. "It could easily be an exercise in confusion, so that people wouldn't know what the slates meant," Duehay said last week...
...resolution constituted a conscious attempt to equate Zionism with obvious examples of racism. Tiamiou Adjibade, the U.N. delegate from Dahomey, admitted that "in essence Zionism was not related to apartheid", yet in the same breath he linked the two. American publications made the same spurious connection. One letter drew an explicit analogy between South Africa and Israel, terming Jewish fear of anti-semitism a 'red herring...
...things moving without rocking the boat. Although it is commonly recognized that the CIA acts on the whims and wishes of whomever occupies the White House, and not as the non-partisan intelligence-gathering organization originally envisioned in the National Security Act of 1947, the crassness of Nixon's attempt to use the CIA for domestic politics apparently struck a raw nerve in Helms...
...corrolas of May flowers had spread open, and now their stigmas waved about, lewdly coated with sick secretions. The pollen which fell in showers from the pines would adhere to them and attempt a kind of sodomy, but success would be reserved for pollen of the same species...In the forest, maple twigs could not be bruised in this season, in fact could barely be touched, without causing the sweet sap to ejaculate into...
...Nathan stretches to the far-fetched in his attempt to imagine real life. Several plot contrivances mar the novel. But its richness and vitality cannot be overstated. It reads quickly, much like a longish (180 pages) short story, and so stimulating a novel is hard to relinquish to the bookshelf. The Ghost Writer ends too soon...