Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was much more to be done in the attempt to achieve stability in the Middle East-more than either force or summit conference could accomplish. But the overriding fact was that, largely because the imminent danger of Lebanon and Jordan had been postponed, the pundits, commentators and statesmen were afforded the luxury of second guessing and peaceful discussion...
Traditional Expansion Attempt...
...that aspirations to Arab unity come from a lexicon of liberal foundations. By quoting speeches made by Nasser on several occasions during the past five years, he showed that the dictator's desire that Egypt spread "from the Atlantic Ocean to the Persian Gulf" is but the traditional Egyptian attempt to expand, now under the guise of Arab unity...
East Germans $1,748 to cover room and board for the nine Americans. Clearly defeated in their attempt at the higher blackmail, the Communists nevertheless regaled each other with the idiocy that the U.S. had implied recognition by the mere fact that a settlement had been made. If they seriously believed this, they had made themselves the most laughable buccaneers since Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance...
Hussein, who in 1956 had unceremoniously booted out the Arab Legion's famed English commander, Lieut. General Glubb Pasha, and ended the British $25 million-a-year subsidy to Jordan in an unsuccessful attempt to compromise with Nasser, turned now to Britain for help. Two days after the U.S. Marine landings in Lebanon, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told the House of Commons of Hussein's urgent message: "Jordan is faced with an imminent attempt by the United Arab Republic to create internal disorder and to overthrow the present regime." According to British intelligence, said Macmillan, Hussein...