Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Here again is Southern woman sore beset, hounded by desire and hobbled by gentility, and wrecked not so much by passion as by the attempt to give it a prettier name, to deny its carnal nature. Alma Winemiller (Margaret Phillips) is a minister's repressed, highfalutin daughter, passionately in love with the hell-raising son of the doctor next door. Possibly John Buchanan (nicely played by Tod Andrews) would have fallen for Alma had not her ladylike insistences, her chatter about the spiritual side of love, been too much for him. By the time Alma looks sex squarely...
Police have taken the bomb's remains to the State Police Laboratory in an effort to discover its origin. They provisionally attribute the bomb to a prankster's attempt to re-create the excitement of the January 9 robbery...
...theory of how this should be accomplished has been evolved from the experience of the past, and, according to many of West Point's critics, the past is still the dominant factor in the standards striven for. Certainly tradition is present everywhere, and a conscious attempt is made to impress the incoming Plebe with its importance. Not only the collection of battle flags in the Chapel or the many statues and monuments to the dead are there to remind him of "the long, grey line" of Cadets that have preceded him, but such customs as the "Plebe system" itself contribute...
...first games come after two weeks of more or less intensive conditioning. Two hundred-odd candidates for the eight teams have been put through conditioning and signal drills in an attempt to reduce the chances of injuries in the usually ragged games; and each unit has undergone considerable blackboard work...
...that part of the trouble is in the feeling that the attempt should be made. Lincoln did not start out to write a statement of democratic faith in the Gettysburg Address, but to dedicate a graveyard. The American epic, if it is ever written, may have as unpretentious an origin...