Word: attempters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wilson went back in history in an attempt to prove that the new group cannot use the name "Sphinx." In 1914 two College eating clubs--the Sphinx and the Kalumet--merged to form the S. K. Club, Wilson said. In 1927 this club and the Phoenix merged to form the Phoenix S. K., a final club...
...Russia Strikes" is an attempt to analyze the probable actions of the United States and its allies on the one hand, and Russia on the other, in event of conflict. Mr. Eliot gives Russia another year in which to decide to attack the West, and the West three years to make the same decision if either is to be successful. According to the author, Russia could now capture all of Western Europe easily, but the United States would still possess final superiority in the air. Time is with this country in arming the Atlantic Pact nations but it will also...
Aware of totalitarian tendencies still alive in Germany, the Bonn Conference also laid the groundwork for outlawing the Communists or any neo-Nazi group. The constitution provides that political parties may be ruled unconstitutional if they attempt to abolish "the free and democratic basic order...
...left their posts for midnight Mass at the big stone church of Saint-Aimé, where strikers had prayed daily that they would be granted the union security and a 15?-an-hour wage boost that they had demanded. (Johns-Manville argued that the union-security demand was an attempt to interfere in "managerial policy.") At a union meeting in the church basement, after Mass, the strikers were asked if they wanted to continue the blockade. There was a unanimous "Oui." Then the men piled into waiting trucks, went back to the barricades to await the next assault...
German-born Novelist Thomas Mann, who once found grievous fault with German intellectuals for not fighting Naziism ("This monstrous German attempt at world domination ... is nothing but a distorted and unfortunate expression of that universalism innate in the German character"), had decided that the Russians were pretty nice people, really. "When I remember how I myself was influenced by Russian writers and Russian culture, I can't hate them," he said. "I believe [they] are fundamentally disinclined toward...