Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...world last week concerned Western Germany, on whose battered pits and blast furnaces and factories depend Europe's future and (very likely) the world's peace. Western Germany was what the "Berlin crisis" was all about. The Russians had imposed the Berlin blockade in a desperate attempt to prevent Western German recovery. This Russian plan failed. Just four months after the Western Allies introduced their great currency reform, Western Germany was on its feet again. Its revival was a notable triumph for German energy and for certain Western ideas, including free enterprise...
...partners in Architects Collaborative explain it, "There has been an attempt to get away from such imposing structures as Langdell and Widener libraries, which were copied from another age with a different spirit. A modern dormitory should be residential rather than institutional...
Injuries are nothing new as a major bane in House football. For years Dolph Samborski has tried out new plans for the gaming season and has varied the practice schedules to alleviate the situation. This year's modified round robin is another attempt...
...climbers named these mountains from a newspaper clipping that described the last group to attempt a scaling: "They told stories of hardship and privation. They were forced to ration themselves...
About 38.000 College alumni will receive brochures backing a utilitarian war memorial. The last minute attempt to block a $60,000 plaque as Harvard's World War H memorial was started last night by the Student Council, the Crimson Key Society, and the House committees...