Word: attempted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Rudolf Abel, also across the Glienicker Bridge. Soon Vogel was dealing as well for Bulgarian Penyu Kostadinov, indicted in 1983 for buying nuclear weapons secrets in New York City, and for Alice Mickelson, an East German arrested last year at New York's Kennedy Airport in a smuggling attempt...
...seems to have perfectly articulated the nation's mood with regard to Viet Nam. "In general, the public feels that Viet Nam was a tragedy, an experience they don't want to repeat," says Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History. "But at the same time, there's an attempt to find some redeeming aspects in it. Movies can turn a defeat into victory; you can achieve in fantasy what you didn't achieve in reality." Says Arthur Egendorf, a clinical psychologist and author of Healing from the War: Trauma and Transformation After Vietnam: "Rambo is an effort to deal...
Both Cassileth and Angell saw another unfortunate implication in the notion of conquering disease by positive thinking. "If the cancer spreads, despite every attempt to think positively," Angell asked, "is the patient at fault?" She pointed to remarks made by Humana Institute's Dr. Allan Lansing, who at a press conference expressed concern that Artificial Heart Recipient William Schroeder did not have the right attitude after his first stroke. The implication, she said, is that Schroeder was in some way responsible for his condition. At a time when patients are already suffering from disease, Angell concluded, "they should...
...Abed suburb of Beirut that killed more than 75 Shi'ite Muslims but failed to hurt Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadallah, one of Lebanon's pro-Iranian Shi'ite religious leaders. Shi'ites later claimed that the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency had engineered the bombing, in an attempt to fight Shi'ite terrorism with counterterrorism; the CIA denied the charge...
...these secular times, it is the state that claims, "Vengeance is mine," and insists on the sole right to decide what is just and to impose punishment. Any personal attempt at retribution is dismissed as vengeance, and vengeance is dismissed as psychotic, almost taboo. Yet as Susan Jacoby points out in her interesting book Wild Justice, vengeance comes to appear necessary when the state (or the gods) fails to provide justice...