Word: attemptedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...month since rugged, tough Police Chief Eugene Smith stopped them cold in their attempt to halt integration at Hall and Central high schools, Little Rock's dwindling band of diehard segregationists has seethed with frustration. Last week, in a senseless outburst of spite, a handful of maniacs shattered the calm of Labor Day night with a spree of bomb throwing-and again ran smack into hard-hitting Gene Smith, backed by rock-hard Little Rock public opinion...
...board's office; Auto Salesman John Taylor Coggins, 39; Samuel G. Beavers, 49, a carpenter at the state mental hospital; and Truck Driver Jesse R. Perry, 24. Convinced of his case against all five, Gene Smith saw each arraigned on $50,000 bail, announced that a fourth dynamite attempt (against an office building occupied by the Prudential Insurance Co.) had fizzled when the dynamiters were scared away by heavy downtown traffic...
While the King and queen besought their faithful subjects to remain calm, Cambodian security police began an investigation, soon announced that the card from the U.S. firm was fraudulent and a "crude attempt" to stir up anti-American sentiment. Who was guilty of the outrage? Observers pointed out that neutralist Cambodia's relations with its pro-Western neighbors, South Viet Nam and Thailand, were on the mend after several years of tension (TIME, March 16). Only one group stood to gain from chaos in Cambodia: the Communists...
...dashes up and down the halls, teases attractive young lady staffers ("Salute me,baby!"). He has multiplied the number of products in McCall's "Use-Tested" program, is installing a beauty clinic and textile and chemical labs, plans to test food products, toilet goods and cosmetics in an attempt to catch up with Good Housekeeping's seal of approval testing program. Indeed, Herb Mayes's plans for McCall's have few limits: he predicts he will overtake the Ladies' Home Journal (circ. 5,685,245), grande dame of the women's magazines, "within less...
Surgeon at Arms, by Daniel Paul with John St. John. In September 1944, British Field Marshal Montgomery ordered an airborne attempt to outflank the Siegfried Line, and a British battle surgeon who tended the wounded of that unsuccessful mission writes movingly of blood, death and capture...