Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days later, a Tokyo paper quoted a "high American authority" as saying that the U.S. might not attempt to hold Japan in case of war with Russia. Almost everyone knew that the "high authority" was the Secretary of the Army; no high authority in Douglas MacArthur's command could possibly have said such a thing. Asia was swept by rumors that the U.S. was about to quit Japan. All the way Down Under, an Australian newspaper cried in a mournful headline: "ALONE IN THE PACIFIC...
Dean Erwin N. Griswold of the Law School, chairman of the special commission hearing the appeal of Dr. Miriam Van Waters for rein-statement, balked an attempt by the prosecution yesterday to introduce state auditor's reports as evidence against the ousted head of the State Reformatory for Women...
...than sleazy social values. At its very best, Death of a Salesman confers a bifocal sense of simultaneously making you see what is and what could be-how completely needless are man's blunders, and how entirely inevitable. There especially lies the impressiveness of the play's attempt, touched as it is with the tragic sense of life...
...extravagant language was not justified, it was in some sense understandable. Death of a Salesman is no more than an altogether creditable play. But it is also a magnificent try, concerned with something so simple, central and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it. It reveals the tragedy of a typical American who loses out by trying too hard to win out; it chronicles the propless failure born of the worship of success...
...Geneva meeting closed with an angry, 1,000-word manifesto which said, in part: "Governments which claim to guarantee freedom of conscience and religion are in fact denying it ... Officers and members of churches have been arrested and imprisoned on an ever-increasing scale . . . We see ... a deliberate attempt to undermine the strength of churches by forcing them either to withdraw completely from public life or to become tools of secular policy . . . We reaffirm . . . that every person has the right to express his religious beliefs...