Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...medical services merged. With an eye to small irritations, he cut down on -the private use of official automobiles. And to end intra-service wrangling in press and radio, he issued a directive "consolidating" the press faculties of the three services, a move which was immediately attacked as an attempt to censor the news that came from the Pentagon...
...psychologists did not attempt to cure the Faculty, however, and none of the Clinic's patients hit the headlines with axe murders. In fact, the new project's combination of therapy, teaching, and research turned out to be a very good one. The students made willing and interested guinea pigs, and the patients--sent to the Clinic by other agencies; the Clinic takes none directly--got the benefit of the staff's newest researches. The Clinic has built up a considerable reputation for its work, which ranged from research in hypnotism to experiments in the psychology of jokes. Since...
Fainsod will attempt to get first-hand information on conditions inside Russia by talking to Soviet refugees and DPs who have been in the USSR recently. He will be joined next week in Frankfurt, Germany, by Paul W. Friedrich '49, who will act as a special assistant...
...refused to be dominated by admirals, but he made no attempt to usurp their jealously held prerogatives. He simply did his job, better, perhaps, than any service Secretary in history. He drove himself with a kind of quiet intensity. Year after year he worked seven days a week, from early morning until late at night. His vacations were risky expeditions under fire on the battlefronts...
Both of these actions were protested by the American Labor Party, which charged that the judged had "made an unlawful attempt" to halt Feiner's political activities and called for his reinstatement...