Word: attempted
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...most controversial. His blunt phrasing of questions is exceeded only by his brash style of lobbing them like grenades, ambushing Presidents at every photo opportunity. Hold On, Mr. President -- a phrase that Donaldson says he has never actually used but that typifies his approach -- is in large part an attempt to justify his manner to readers who think him disrespectful. Although he offers plenty of eyewitness disclosures about Ronald Reagan fumbling over details and Jimmy Carter ruthlessly playing to win, he emphasizes the growing difficulty of breaking through White House image manipulation to get straight answers about U.S. policy...
...speech in mid-February (see following story). But arms-control hands with longer memories recognize the initiative by another name: the zero option. In 1981 the Reagan Administration presented just such a proposal for the elimination of all medium-range missiles from Europe. The move was an attempt to soothe peace activists nervous about the pending deployment of Pershing IIs and cruise missiles, which were intended to match the Soviet SS-20s. Given the proposal's nonnegotiable demands, it was assumed the Soviets would never consider it seriously...
Given the predictable position that Reagan took ((he rejected the Soviet attempt to limit SDI to the laboratory)), the package principle adopted by the Soviet side assumed decisive importance. It makes an agreement on SDI a necessary condition for other disarmament agreements, especially any agreement to cut the number of ICBMs. A deadlock developed...
WITH THE TURN of the Screw, Henry James wrote perhaps one of the most controversial novels of the past century, a novel where two conflicting interpretations are both valid. Is it a ghost story or a psychological drama? The Innocents, an adaptation of the story, is William Archibald's attempt at resolving the issue. Originally meant as a movie screenplay,The Innocents has landed in Currier House, adapted to the stage by director Nicholas Martin...
...TRUE that titillating and highly popular biographies of the five women I am studying abound, but no attempt has been made to examine the unique sociological niche they inhabited while at court. My task has been to full that gap in 17th and 18th Century French historiography. All of my sources came from Widener, whose collection of historical manuscripts is probably better than the one at the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris. I found everything I was looking for in the musty subbasement, as well as a few things which I wasn't looking...