Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of such anxieties, Muñoz started Operation Serenity, "an attempt to give to economic effort objectives that commend themselves to the spirit." On a budget now running $315,000 a year, Operation Serenity restores old churches, houses and forts, rediscovers folklore and old music: Puerto Rico bursts with pride at being the home of such artists as Cellist Casals and the late Nobel Prizewinning Poet Juan Ramón Jiménez. But Serenity has not eased the pull on Bootstrap. Muñoz finally came around to the belief that "we must live like angels and produce...
...believed to be rich in minerals, including vast deposits of high-grade coking coal. There may be important fisheries too, but few fishermen like to work off the dangerous, shelterless coast. So the region, which is virtually uninhabited, may be a good place for the world's first attempt (if the Russians do not do it first) at large-scale nuclear blasting...
...move along the path to a world unity. But the first League of Nations was a bold and noble effort to produce, in Pascal's words, "a world in which force is just and justice has force at its disposal." After the second World War a new attempt was made. In the first flush of enthusiasm the founders of the United Nations organization believed that they had found the answer. In the Security Council, mainly dominated by the great powers, was to be found the germ of a world administration or cabinet, and in the Assembly the beginning...
...Majesty's government," said the British Foreign Office in its stiffest note since Suez, "must point out that it would be their duty to prevent any unlawful attempt to interfere with British fishing vessels on the high seas." (An international conference last April failed to agree on a three, six-or twelve-mile limit, leaving it up to what each nation can enforce.) Although Iceland had not yet talked of using gunboats itself, "Her Majesty's government," continued the note, "finds it difficult to believe that the Icelandic government would use force against British fishing vessels in order...
...Senior Prom and its underclass version, the Freshmore, are the two biggest dances of the year. All-night prom parties for the upperclass event are arranged by a committee of the Parent-Teachers Association in a futile attempt to keep students from driving 25 miles to Chicago night-spots after the dance...