Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Warned the man who had kicked off the crisis by subverting the friendly government of Iraq and killing its leaders, the man behind the attempt to subvert Lebanon and Jordan-the United Arab Republic's Dictator Gamal Abdel Nasser-that he would face "grave consequences" if he interfered with the U.S. forces in Lebanon...
...Americans," she finds, after a sight-seeing tour to Colorado, "are too self-conscious about getting along." Whereas Britishers greet each other under the assumption that all's wrong with the world, Americans, she stated, "make a hollow attempt at cheerfulness." "Conversations start on such a happy note that they can only go down-hill...
...Force men's reports were in, the State Department fired off a protest against 1) the MIG attack upon an unarmed U.S. transport, 2) the brutal mistreatment of the airmen by the Armenian peasants. Said State: "To suggest that a slow, four-engine propeller-type unarmed aircraft would attempt to violate a heavily defended foreign area is preposterous...
...Cronin; you have compiled the best list of contributing causes to teachers' headaches that I have seen in a long time," wrote Sister Mary Ransom, dean of Louisville's Nazareth College, in a not entirely convincing reply. Sister Mary's points: 1) questionnaires are an attempt to find out which children suffer from unhappy homes and thus enable the church to offer help; 2) play costumes are costly and so too are the increasing number of lay teachers needed in growing parochial schools; 3) mission collections teach children to make sacrifices; 4) Mrs. Cronin could help improve...
Travel Agent. In Memphis, George Gattas hurried to the airport in an attempt to get two friends aboard a Southern Airways DC-3, arrived slightly late, raced the plane across the tarmac as it taxied before takeoff, blocked its path with his station wagon, accomplished his mission, gladly paid a $26 fine...