Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a year I have warned that behind the flood control, behind the power development, was a deliberate attempt . . . for a little group of men to run things their way-good sometimes, bad sometimes-but always their way-forgetting that a check with the homefolks and their wishes is not only good practical horse sense but the very essence of democracy...
Generalissimo Franco's hour of final triumph seemed near at hand, while for the Spanish Republic the clock struck eleven. The Loyalists' attempt to divert the crushing offensive of superior Rebel equipment by offensives of their own, first in Extremadura, next at Brunete, finally near Toledo, petered out. For the first time, the Rebels refused to be diverted...
...fortunes of democracy and religion (TIME, Jan. 16). This week U. S. Protestantism's foremost journal, after ruminating the President's words, spewed them forth. It found in them a "naked and appalling meaning." The Christian Century declared that Mr. Roosevelt's speech was "like the attempt of a Mohammedan mullah to raise desert tribesmen to frenzy by preaching another jehad...
...Christian Century, "there apparently seemed left only one appeal with sufficient emotional content, sufficient power to paralyze men's rational processes, to carry his program for limitless armament spending through Congress.*. . . Every Christian voice should immediately and in unmistakable terms let Congress and the President know that this attempt to drag religion through the hell of a new holy war is resented and repudiated by the churches. . . . This [is] revelation of his utter lack of comprehension of the mind of at least the Protestant churches...
Nevada's Senator McCarran, good Roman Catholic and father of two nuns,* declared that any attempt to lift the embargo "will be met by Senate opposition that will be remembered for a long time to come...