Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wire-service reporters raced out of the courtroom for the telephones, the defendants and their lawyers sat stunned for a moment. Then the lawyers hopped to their feet in an attempt to head off the testimony of the unperturbed man in the witness chair...
...Oppressed Redskins. For more than an hour, Russia's bland, hulking Delegate Yakov A. Malik tried to keep the inquiry off the agenda. The case of the "Traitor Mindszenty," he argued, was of concern to Hungary only; the U.S. attempt to bring it before the Assembly was merely a move by the "ruling circles [of America] to boss other people around in their own homes." Moreover, cried Malik, the U.S. was trying to cover up its own sins of oppression, the trials of "political [Communist] leaders," the lynching of Negroes and the "pitiful plight" of the American Indians...
...Crimson was stopped from scoring three times by the aggressive McGill defense. Twice Sam Adams was flattened short of the goal line when as many as five defenders ganged him, and a field goal attempt by Hollis French after the touchdown missed, due primarily to difficult angle...
Munro is going to have about 30 men dressing for the game, practically all of them midfielders--he is still juggling four separate midfield units in an attempt to find the best...
...performance. He knows the part well-obviously, since he is the inventor of it, he plays it beautifully and with perfect shading--he ought to, for he had played it long enough. without him to play Sheridan Whiteside, it would have been complete lunacy for the HDC to attempt a production of this play. No matter how many productions of this perennial favorite you may have seen, when Woolley emits his first line, you know that the right man is in the wheelchair...