Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bishop Fjellbu (pronounced fyellboo) warned against any "attempt to pass judgment on capitalism and communism as economic systems"; the church, he said, should condemn "only a totalitarianism which makes claims on the whole man and seeks to restrict his religious freedom." Bishop Dibelius, who referred to Western Berlin as "a fortress amid the Red Sea," wanted strong language...
Assault, 1946's Horse of the Year, and fourth highest money winner of all time ($668,020), failed in one comeback attempt last season and was retired to stud on Texas' 875,000-acre King Ranch. When he was found to be sterile, his ailing front leg was patched up and he was sent back to the races. Last week, after one defeat in a tryout race a fortnight ago, he got back to winning form. In the $50,000-added Brooklyn Handicap at Aqueduct, the six-year-old, clubfooted chocolate stallion looked good...
...attempt by Sweden to organize a neutral bloc outside the pact collapsed when Secretary Acheson...
...Sweden, as in all Scandinavian countries, religious liberty has developed only gradually since Lutheranism became supreme in the 16th Century; until a law was passed in 1860 recognizing dissident churches, any attempt to get a Lutheran to change his confession was a penal offense, and apostasy from the state church made a Swede liable to banishment for life. Since 1860 much progress has been made, but it has been slow...
...Communist blacksmith, glumly recognized the shattering defeat that Italian leftists had suffered. Fruit Peddler Ugo, his hotheaded disciple, broke with him over weakkneed party policy, but returned one night when he learned that the Second Wave was starting. They roared off on Maciste's motorcycle in a desperate attempt to warn their comrades, but the squadristi shot Maciste dead and wounded Ugo. He eluded them and made his way back to the Via del Corno, where he collapsed near the apartment door of the street's most curious personality, the Signora...