Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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FOUR SWEPT-WING JET STRATOTANKERS SCHEDULED TO ATTEMPT TO SET JET-AGE SPEED RECORDS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN TOOK OFF JUST BEFORE MIDNIGHT...
...demonstration persuaded Peru's church hierarchy to attempt an explanation. In a nationwide broadcast, Jesuit Father Ulpiano López, an expert in canon law, declared: "The validity of marriage depends exclusively on the mutual consent and surrender of the two persons who give themselves to each other in love and trust." If consent is obtained by means of falsehoods or threats, the act of marriage is invalid. He cited the case of a man who was compelled to marry under threat of death. The church can declare a marriage null if it finds a condition invalidating...
With 14 weeks to go, reported the Times of London gloomily, Britain's current attempt to regain the America's Cup "was deemed to have all but failed." Boating buffs remembered 1939, when Evaine herself was beaten handily in British waters by the U.S.'s visiting Vim, now one of four potential U.S. cup defenders. There were better helmsmen available, critics argued, than Sceptre's 34-yearold skipper, Lieut. Commander Graham Mann, onetime sailing master for the royal family. As a matter of fact, some added, there were altogether too many navymen in the challenger...
...colts for Roosevelt Raceway's $108,565 Messenger Stake, one of harness racing's richest, Trainer-Driver Del Miller learned that he himself would be watching the race from the stands. For driving last year's Messenger winner Meadow Lands "in a manner inconsistent with an attempt to win," Miller was set down for 15 days. "As far as I'm concerned," he sulked, "I do not plan to be seen in a sulky at Roosevelt even after my suspension...
...Mentality. For the Guardian, Zorza writes what he likes, travels where he likes. He tries to avoid making predictions: "I attempt to explain what is happening rather than what is going to happen." Still, while explaining what is happening behind the Iron Curtain, Zorza has often found patterns foreshadowing later events. In November 1955, after studying the identities and associations of security officials purged in some trials in Tvilisi, Zorza concluded that onetime Premier Malenkov was in trouble-a full 16 months before he was relieved as Minister of Electric Power Stations and relegated to a job in remote Kazakhstan...