Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Remarkably, in his attempt to dictate the senatorial nomination, Harriman was licked before he began-and almost everybody knew it but Ave. His inability to grasp the political facts of life kept the convention fight raging for days in hotel corridors, suites and lobbies. The log of one of the wildest of all New York political conventions...
...rules by secretly sending telegrams to two Swiss banks in an effort to have the banks withhold their proxies. Only slightly taken aback, Phillips announced that he would appeal-to demand that Pennsy's directors be required to pay from their own pockets the cost of fighting his attempt to get on the board...
...Mondol (succeeding England's Viscount Mackintosh of Halifax). Western delegates, proud of the amount of free discussion in the convention, were disconcerted to discover that even some of the Japanese clergy strongly suspected that, as one of them said: "This emphasis on discussion groups is just an attempt to make propaganda for your American ideas about democracy and has no direct connection with church work...
...success are great.They begin on the ground, where the Thor rocket has yet to prove its reliability. The probe should be launched only during the four days of the month when the moon is in the best position for tracking; if the rocket fizzles on the launching pad, another attempt must await the same short period next month. Even if the probe does get off on schedule, the perils of imprecision mount as the vehicle soars closer to the moon. The margin for error at the rendezvous point is about 30 minutes, and the slightest miscalculation in the rocket...
...attempt to halt the drop, the Federal Reserve Board fumbled the job, adding to the trouble. The Fed, which regularly buys 91-day Treasury bills as part of its normal operations, cryptically announced that it was "broadening" its open-market operations. This led many to believe that the Fed intended to buy enough long-term bonds to cushion the market; it gave courage to the market, attracted buyers back into bonds. But the Fed's purchases were limited to buying $1 billion of one-year certificates to aid the Treasury's July refinancing operation. As the effect...