Word: attemptedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENEVA, May 11--The Soviet Union and the Big Three Western foreign ministers plunged into cold war negotiations tonight after colliding head-on over German participation. The West beat back a belated Soviet attempt to seat Communist East Germany as a full negotiator...
Raging River. Although Nehru's feelings about China were undoubtedly strong, they were couched in his own curious brand of spongy language ("An attempt to explain the situation by the use of rather worn-out words, phrases and slogans is seldom helpful"). If he hoped thereby that Peking would as softly reply, he misjudged his antagonist. Peking began a hue and cry about how "intolerable" Nehru's remarks were, and set in motion the whole dreary ritual of thousands of agitation meetings to condemn Nehru...
...makes his living as a smalltime photographer and petty swindler, and he curses the old cook for ruining his life by sending him to a seminary. Shattered, the old woman makes a pilgrimage to Rome to do penance for what Werfel conceived as the sin of the century: the attempt to substitute power for love, money for meaning...
...Stark, Dean is superb in his portrayal of a teenager with more energy than direction, forced by his family to move from town to town to escape his past. He makes every attempt to adjust to his new environment, but there is an insurmountable obstacle in the form of the local ruling class, a group of unsavory types who just can't wait to become mature, full-grown gangsters and begin practicing the arts early...
Confidence ran high on both sides before the start of the mile, the day's first race. Jim Doty had come through with a tremendous 178 ft., 7 1/2 in. effort on his last attempt in the hammer throw to snatch first place away from Yale's Dave Cross by three inches. But, on the Yale side, Crimson sophomore Stan Doten's arm injury, which he sustained in getting off the bus the night before, had kept him from taking an important second or third...