Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taken a tremendous risk and had won. At times during his six-day mission to Cairo and Jerusalem in an attempt to forge an Egyptian-Israeli peace, failure seemed all but certain. Discouraged aides talked openly of the trip becoming "a debacle." But at the last minute Carter achieved a victory of presidential diplomacy that has brought Egypt and Israel to the threshold of peace after 30 years of enmity and four brutal wars. By his daring and persistent personal intervention, Carter fundamentally altered the geopolitical equation in the volatile Middle East. He also strengthened his own standing both...
...Hoveida, who served as Prime Minister for almost 13 years under the Shah, was by far the most important official of the old regime to stand trial for his life. Ironically, he was jailed by the Shah late last year on charges of corruption, in what was an obvious attempt to mollify the Shah's critics...
...actors mouthing it are sarcastic or inept. All the same, spry gusts of parody whip around the edges of certain lines and actions. There is for example, a disarmingly silly moment when two of the men trapped in the station, squabbling about who should risk an unlikely escape attempt, settle on a quick game on one-potato two-potato...
...always thought that I could eat more than anyone else and I wanted to prove it," Friedman said yesterday. He said that his training included going to dinner with his friends and getting all their food for them on the day of the attempt and using "a special burp technique" while eating the cake...
...unit will offer pre-doctoral, post-doctoral and continuing education training programs in an attempt to alleviate a "shortage of people in the field of toxicology," Hiatt said...