Word: attempter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With Russia's four-million-man peacetime army, mostly infantry, the West did not attempt to compete. But the closing months of World War II had made astute military men realize that airborne troops, supplied by air, would be a crucial factor if World War III arrived. Few would have believed, a month ago, that 2½ million people could be fed by air. If the U.S. and Britain, now at a low peacetime level, could turn that trick with a scratch force, what could they do if mobilized for war? The answer perceptibly shortened the shadow...
Lunging like a wounded bull, the South charged into action again. To Southerners, Douglas was a more obnoxious champion of Negro rights than Harry Truman ever was. They howled that the Douglas boom was merely an attempt to buy off the old New Dealers, who, under Leon Henderson, were the chief Douglas supporters. Snorted a. Southerner: "Douglas is just Wallace in black robes...
Life was a round of cheap rooms, skimpy meals, an endless attempt to look glamorous and "sexy." She posed for hundreds of cheesecake pictures...
Basso, whose spiritual home is Communism, pointed with approval to Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe and said the majority of the Italian Socialist leaders were engaged in "a hybrid, inconsequential, incongruous attempt to preserve or gain personal positions...
...terrorists got part of their arms ashore at Kfar Vitkin. But in the fight they lost six killed, 20 wounded, while Haganah suffered two dead, three wounded. Beigin boarded the ship, ordered it southward. At midnight the Altalena rammed on to the beach at Tel Aviv for another attempt. When noon came, an assault boat with a few steel-helmeted Irgunists ventured toward the beach, and despite Haganah fire set up a small beachhead. But when Haganah turned mortar fire on the Altalena, and smoke began to pour out amidships, the rest of the Irgunists jumped over the sides, swam...