Word: attemptedly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...United States and Russia are fighting a diplomatic war over Berlin in which either side must attempt to threaten the other into a corner without actually committing itself to armed conflict...
Friedrich based his plan on the assumption that Russia is not using the Berlin issue as an excuse to start a war. Rather, he feels the Soviet's withdrawl from Berlin is an attempt to force the West into a de facto recognition of East Germany...
Thomas suggested that Israeli immigration should be more moderate and take into account the feelings of the Arab nations, explaining "We must learn to compromise and live with our neighbors in peace if we are to avoid total destruction." He also contended, "the world should attempt to "secure the right of every individual to live peacefully wherever he wants," rather than segregate Jews in a particular geographic area...
...bill abolishing Minnesota's "costly" ten-year-old primary. Fear of the Humphreyites: G.O.P. voters might cross over in the primary to vote for Kennedy and embarrass Humphrey in his home state. Last week the Kennedy-ites scored in Wisconsin with a surprise play that broke up the attempt of Humphrey's teammates to block Kennedy from next April's Wisconsin primary...
...started out with $15, the last $2 of which someone had stolen from him while he was sleeping on a lawn in Utah. Bitterly, "Pat" Knopf noted that only truck drivers had helped him ("The rest of the people are a bunch of damned snobs") in his hitchhike attempt to reach Reno, where he "knew a lot of rich people" and hoped to get started...